Hurricanes, World energy crisis and my outlandish ideas..

Before my blog meets the same fate as my website (death by lack of updates), here are some thoughts after hearing lot of coverage on hurriances in the US (North America, Gulf of Mexico really), world energy crisis....

In my limited knowledge of hurricanes are naturally occuring phenomena. Usually form over a oceans, thanks to a low pressure area, feeds on the warm ocean currents and becomes an monster at times with maximum sustained winds on which it gets its category.

Now, in one of the TV coverages, one hurricane "expert" mentioned that the energy from the storms could power the entire United States for a year.

That sparked a brain wave (in my brain of course) !!!

Now what if there was a way to "harness" the energy of the storm?

Only if you could throw energy acquistion devices (I fondly call them - "power goblets") into the storm and they would collect the energy from the powerful wind forces within the storm. The goblets would be intelligent and self powered enough, to navigate themselves outside the storm areas once fully charged and just float out in the calm waters. Thanks to nano-eletronics, I would not concive a power goblet to no more larger than a couple of tennis balls put together.

The power goblets would be configured with GPS and beacons. A goblet collection vechicle (sea fairing /airborne) would collect the goblets and bring them to mainland.

The energy from these goblets would be emptied into an energy distribution device and send around the globe to cities, village and maybe even cars.

Howzzat to solve the energy crisis of the world?

I even found the name for the venture or the new occupation/industry - STORM POWER HARVESTING.

I originally thought of Storm Harverters, but that gives an incorrect connation that storm harverters actually create storms...:)

Coming next, some closer to land idea to harness the same power. Umm... it's all in head, need to visualize it more before putting it in words.