Taming Hurricanes

Dr. Alan Blumberg of Stevens Institute of Technology has a plan to slow down hurricanes by deploying thousands of floating pumps that use energy from waves to draw cold water from depths of the ocean to cool its surface.

By cooling the surface water just two degrees, a storm could be reduced from a category-3 to a category-1 designation, and the plan would only cost about $300 million compared to the $50 billion damage wrought by Sandy.