then... Microsoft
now... vía Switched.com
Bill Gates Devises Plan to Fight and Destroy Hurricanes
Gates, who has yet to publicly comment on the matter, has reportedly secured multiple patents through which he and several colleagues hope to weaken hurricanes. Their idea focuses on steering barges directly into the path of a building storm. The barges, equipped with special turbines and pumps, would draw up frigid deep water in order to stymie developing hurricanes, which rely on warm surface water to fuel their intensity.
Oh, Bill... PLEASE, OPEN THAT GATE...
