Where is the Dyn-o-mat guy when you need him???

[charleston_hugo_veteran]

[Scorpion]

That wouldnt do any good. Plus it would ruin the environment.

[charleston_hugo_veteran]

That wouldnt do any good. Plus it would ruin the environment.

I agree ...it was a joke!!

[canegrl04]

Somebody has to rein in that clown before he starts poisoning our oceans

[TxAggie]

Darwinian selection will take care of him if he keeps flying small planes into Hurricanes.

[Possum Trot]

I think the plan was to use a 747. Nuts.

[Innotech]

I already said, he doesnt and cannot disperse enough dyno-mat to soak up the equivalent of over 3 TRILLION HORSEPOWER, or multi trillions of BTUs worth of latent energy.

[TxAggie]

Still...wouldn't want to be in there with a 747 either. Turbojets and massive quantities of water don't mix.

[Billy Anderson]

Besides, where would all those disposable diapers end up landing?

[krisj]

So I am assuming the guy never got his plane? I never heard the end of the story.

[Possum Trot]

NOAH has an article explaining why the Dyn-o-mat strategy would not work. Here's an excerpt and link to the rest of the article:

"One of the biggest problems is, however, that it would take a LOT of the stuff to even hope to have an impact. 2 cm of rain falling over 1 square kilometer of surface deposits 20,000 metric tons of water. At the 2000-to-one ratio that the "Dyn-O-Gel" folks advertise, each square km would require 10 tons of goop. If we take the eye to be 20 km in diameter surrounded by a 20km thick eyewall, that's 3,769.91 square kilometers, requiring 37,699.1 tons of "Dyn-O-Gel". A C-5A heavy-lift transport airplane can carry a 100 ton payload. So that treating the eyewall would require 377 sorties. A typical average reflectivity in the eyewall is about 40 dB(Z), which works out to 1.3 cm/hr rain rate. Thus to keep the eyewall doped up, you'd need to deliver this much "Dyn-O-Gel" every hour-and-a-half or so. If you crank the reflectivity up to 43 dB(Z) you need to do it every hour. (If the eyewall is only 10 km thick, you can get by with 157 sorties every hour-and-a-half at the lower reflectivity.)"

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5d.html

[Possum Trot]

Still...wouldn't want to be in there with a 747 either. Turbojets and massive quantities of water don't mix.

Indeed.

[Possum Trot]

So I am assuming the guy never got his plane? I never heard the end of the story.

This is the closest thing I found to an answer on the Dyb-o-mat website:

"Based on the success of this test, Dyn-O-Mat® and its team of experts will prepare to combat a tropical storm or a hurricane in its embryo stage (weather permitting) in the very near future."

http://www.dynomat.com/storm.shtml

More on Dynomat:

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/ ... 665381.htm

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/ ... 15-ON.html

Hey its environmentally friendly:

"Cordani's absorbant, disposable Dyn-O-Mat caught on quickly. The environmentally friendly mat soaks up car oil and other toxic stuff and can be burned. Poof. No more toxic cardboard in landfills."

http://tinyurl.com/5ruac

What are you going to do? Suppress every hurricane (assuming it would work)? The energy has to go somewhere.

[PurdueWx80]

Yeah, it would probably stay in the oceans...and some other weird phenomena would develop.

[nystate]

If I understand correctly, this guy would be sitting in a comfortable press room while a crew of at least 3 flew the aircraft into the storm and hopefully back. No risk on this guy's part...