Tropical storms to be defeated

For the first time in history, tropical storms may have met their match.

And the opposing force is someone unexpected: Bill Gates.

This Microsoft Founder, along with 12 colleagues has created a device to decrease the intensity of tropical storms.

Though this device is still in the patent and prototype form, the Salter Sink will mix warm water from the ocean's surface, with the colder water from its depths.

Warm ocean water provides the energy for each storm, causing increased evaporation and more humidity. The wind then forces this moisture into the sky to create rotating storm clouds, that in turn, form hurricanes.

By preventing or eliminating warm water, storm clouds can be kept from ever forming. If the water can be altered by just 4.5 degrees, the entire tropical storm could be completely extinguished.

Each vessel will be about 100 meters in diameter, or about the length of a football field, and will consist of two levels. The upper level will represent a raft-like apparatus composed of used tires. The lower level will contain plastic tubes that extend below the ocean surface. Waves will power the operation by entering the vessels, pushing the warm water downwards and igniting a turbine. The first turbine will ignite the second turbine and will pull up the cold water from the second tube.

The process seems to be simple, however, by altering nature unforeseen consequences are bound to occur, potentially creating a disaster for our planet.