Build a Wall across the Gulf of Mexico to Stop Hurricanes

Posted by TheGreatJohnQuixote@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 38 comments

Too much wind and current comes up the Gulf and makes a big mess of storms that are always such an ado to deal with. What if we just stopped the wind with a big hecking wall and then no more hurricanes?

Also it'd be cool to have a bridge from Florida to like... the Yucatan or something.

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ivthreadp110@reddit

All around ecologically a bad idea

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TheGreatJohnQuixote@reddit (OP)

Ecological worse than the weather? I mean the wind is like really loud and REALLY wet...a wall is neither!

If you ask me, a wall across the entire Gulf of Mexico is exactly what FDR would have wanted with the New Deal

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ivthreadp110@reddit

When does not loud when it whispers.... You do have a point if we put a wall all around the Gulf of Mexico if there was like an oil spill we could just use it like a giant oil reserve. Like just have a oily sea.. as long as nobody smokes cigarettes in the State of Florida and flicks it into the crude oil. Yes I'm a work crude oil does not light instantly from cigarette but my point still remains

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NativeMasshole@reddit

And make Neptune pay for it!

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jonny80@reddit

Or Poseidon… let’s be inclusive

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Flimsy_Challenge9960@reddit

Got damn merepersons are taking out jobs.

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_Volly@reddit

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

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BobTheInept@reddit

Go to bed, Donald.

Seriously, the thing is in the sky, what is a wall going to do?

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TheGreatJohnQuixote@reddit (OP)

It's windy outside, but then you go behind a wall and it's not windy anymore. So big enough wall will stop big wind. Easy peasy

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BobTheInept@reddit

Ahh, I see. My mistake

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cosmicloafer@reddit

Make it a wall of windmills, free energy!

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Nuclear_Geek@reddit

Or you could run them in reverse to blow the hurricanes away.

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Turbulent-Name-8349@reddit

This is a better idea than the original. Wind turbines extract more wind energy from an extreme wind than a solid wall. And you'd only need to build them where the water is shallow, such on coral reefs, because only shallow water fuels the power of hurricanes. As a result of the wind turbines being built in shallow water, they would not interfere with shipping.

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TheGreatJohnQuixote@reddit (OP)

Yeah but what if the wind turbines turn evil and make the wind more faster and then the hurricanes get angier at us??

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SmokeyGiraffe420@reddit

It’s less crazy than shooting the hurricane, which people have apparently been actually doing for like a decade now

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Tongue4aBidet@reddit

A bridge to the Yucatan isn't stopping much. Safe to say almost all hurricanes start in the Atlantic Ocean so you are trying to break some of them up with a wall / bridge? Did you forget about the entire East Coast?

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ThamusWitwill@reddit

I think dropping bombs in the eye of the storm would be more effective and cheaper

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gc3@reddit

Not really. Someone calculated the energy necessary to disrupt a hurricane when you know who suggested nuking a hurricane... The combined nuclear arsenals of all the nations in the world were still an order of magnitude off

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Youre-In-Trouble@reddit

Gotcha, build more nukes.

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Johnnycarroll@reddit

Can we try injecting it with bleach? Get someone on that.

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TheGreatJohnQuixote@reddit (OP)

Yeah but bombs don't let me drive to Yucatan

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