A company in Japan has just devised a way to reduce the strength of a storm with a special submarine.
Submarines dive to a depth of about 30 meters before the storm hits. (Photo: internet).
Typhoons occur year-round in the western Pacific Ocean, devastating cities along Asia's east coast. Popular Science magazine said that Ise Kogyo - a company in Japan - thinks that they can use submarines to reduce the power of storms when they land on land.
Under Ise Kogyo's method, 20 submarines will dive to a depth of about 30 meters below the sea surface before the storm hits. Each vessel is equipped with 8 pumps capable of bringing faster than 500 tons of cold water upwards per minute. Ise Kogyo asserts that, in the presence of 20 submarines, the amount of cold water they pumped is large enough to lower the temperature of a large area. The lower the temperature on the sea surface, the weaker the storm when entering the mainland.
Therefore, reducing the water temperature can reduce the speed of storms, even causing them to melt right at sea. If the Ise Kogyo method is patented, it will soon be applied in the United States. However, before letting submarines form a formation, one must accurately predict the path of the storm. This is not simple, but it is still easier and more effective than many other methods.