Where does the energy come from to propel a massive hurricane or tornado? Here are some thoughts about this:
If I were to generate a hurricane, how much horsepower would be needed to create a storm of circulating air in excess of one-hundred miles/hour in a diameter of seventy miles or more. The laws of physics, as we know, would probably make this an impossible feat.
I’ve noticed that almost all the hurricanes are started east of Cuba, off the African Coast. They start as tropical storms. They travel west and north, either north of Cuba, or south of Cuba, as a repeating pattern. They pick up strength as they do this, and have lasted many days from their birth to their death. This represents a tremendous amount of energy consumption.
I’ve noticed that none of these hurricanes originated in the gulf, or over Florida, or over La. If the origin of these never occurs here, then why would they increase in severity here? Water temperature? Am I to believe that the total power source for the storm comes from the heat in the water? One cubic centimeter of water yields one calorie of energy for each degree Centigrade. If the total power to drive the hurricane came from the heat in the water, at the hurricanes’ death, the ocean would become an iceberg.
We also have to consider centrifugal forces. Why does the air in this storm not dissipate outward like shot from a shotgun with a rifled barrel. What contains the circular diameter of the storm? What determines it’s diameter?
Let’s look at something much smaller, and maybe easier to understand. Fill my sink in the kitchen 1/2 full of water, and pull the plug. Watch the water go down the drain. What do you see? A spiraling vortex created, with a hole in the center. The outside diameter of the vortex is contained by the size of the drain hole in the sink and the drain pipe. Similar to the tornadoes, the vortex is wider at the top than it is at the bottom.
Now let’s look at the hole in the center of the vortex, as compared to the quiet time in the center of the hurricane. Believe me, the center of the hurricane is “dead air.” I know because I have experienced this in Florida. I can accept the vortex in the sink water as energy given up as kinetic energy of the water as it changes its’ relative vertical altitude. The laws of physics can measure this as foot-pounds of energy. If one pound of water drops one foot of altitude it converts one ft-lb of potential energy into one ft-lb of kinetic energy. This is normal science.
The moral of the story is, I think, that there are further explanations necessary to make this hurricane science fit into logical physics, but it may be necessary to include some new thinking, and possibly some new forms of energy definitions.
For those looking for something new to think about, or investigate, please don’t try to oversimplify the explanation by concluding God just does this because he’s mad. I’m sure God is also using some scientific principals, and it’s the rules of God’s science and physics that I’m interested in. Actually all the laws of mathematics, physics, chemistry, atomic, and all the sciences are part of God’s laws, not just the dinky 10 commandments, but then, it will require some intelligent thought.
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