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How to: Build the hurricane mitigation engine known as a Salter Sink

Hurricane Forcing: Can Tropical Cyclones Be Stopped?
Scientific American

The oceanographers I interviewed for this piece were not kind to v1.0 of the Salter Sink as proposed in Salter’s first paper on the subject. They did want to see more research on it, however. I’m beginning to think that Intellectual Ventures’ policy of revealing its new inventions before papers on them have wound their way through peer review is a mistake.

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