by nashvillebrook » Thu Jan 12, 2006 11:12 pm
i commented on jeff's recent HFZP post asking about the water-river guy. couldn't remember his name. then i saw this post...found my book...and stumbled upon a bunch of his stuff via another blogger. wow. it has been Vicktor Schauberger day!<br><br>spirals...nature...magic...hurricanes...lifting bodies...bio-technology <br>all of this has immediate intuitive appeal. it connects primitive and postmodern science. it's deceptively simple; a higher-order interaction occurs at a certain rate of spin. isn't this what we see in weather? especially our new super hurricanes? there's a point where the vortex seems to generate it's own energy. nasa can't figure it out. hurricanes that reach a critical mass of rotation aren't playing by the old rules. and they display geometry, suggesting organization at high levels of energy. <br><br>there's been lots of talk about the last season of hurricanes having a man-made component. that's highly controversial and shuts down rational examination. what if there's something totally natural that happens when vortices reach a critical mass -- what Schauberger called 'implosion."<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/09jan_electrichurricanes.htm">science.nasa.gov/headline...icanes.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Electric Hurricanes<br>Three of the most powerful hurricanes of 2005 were filled with mysterious lightning.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>January 9, 2006: The boom of thunder and crackle of lightning generally mean one thing: a storm is coming. Curiously, though, the biggest storms of all, hurricanes, are notoriously lacking in lightning. Hurricanes blow, they rain, they flood, but seldom do they crackle.<br><br> Surprise: During the record-setting hurricane season of 2005 three of the most powerful storms--Rita, Katrina, and Emily--did have lightning, lots of it. And researchers would like to know why.<br><br>Richard Blakeslee of the Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC) in Huntsville, Alabama, was one of a team of scientists who explored Hurricane Emily using NASA's ER-2 aircraft, a research version of the famous U-2 spy plane. Flying high above the storm, they noted frequent lightning in the cylindrical wall of clouds surrounding the hurricane's eye. Both cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning were present, "a few flashes per minute," says Blakeslee <p></p><i></i>