Why it wouldn't work:
igorIn the Atlantic ocean. Tip was much larger.
To change a Category 5 hurricane into a Category 2 hurricane you would have to add about a half ton of air for each square meter inside the eye, or a total of a bit more than half a billion (500,000,000) tons for a 20 km radius eye. It's difficult to envision a practical way of moving that much air around.
Right now, with the technology that we have, the most cost effective way would be to simply prepare against them, build things to code, heed evacuations, etc.I was hoping the discussion wouldn't come to real-life applications of weakening tropical cyclones. For one, a tropical cyclone's sole purpose is to transfer solar energy from the equator to the poles which obviously don't get as much. A way of earth keeping balance, entropy. Mother Nature wants them to do that and if we hinder "her" trying to do that, "she" will just send a much larger storm that we won't be able to stop... And it might not be out to sea. Not to mention that would knock some things that were working just fine off kilter, so to speak.