Cheap was never one of your listed criteria.
Affordability is constant one of three Engineers, Architects, Builders, Manufacturers Main Principles!!
Safety, Affordability, and Pliability (the ability to assemble end-products).
If the product is more expensive than affordable, no profits can be obtained, businesses shut down, Customers have to make own products.
Professional Engineers say the best way to divert tornadoes around buildings is to add Flexure, Tensile-Resistance, Elasticity. Adding to building materials too expensive, lowers pliabilities. Adding material strength, size also too expensive. Changing all buildings to dome/half-egg shapes way too expensive (and sight sore), Adding non-flexible reinforcing expensive, but not working good enough, so most affordable method of adding force-compatable Flexure, Tensile-Resistance, and Elasticity to building and structure frame assemblages is to add a singular continuous reinforcing element along the frame.
Installed-Flexible, continuously assembled steel strapping reinforcing, that matches the frame assemblage shapes, improves the structural performances of the frames, are easier to install than either adding material weight and size, easier to install than adding multiple, various location, non-flexible reinforcing products, adds the needed Flexure, Tensile-Resistance, and Elasticity, and meets all three Professional Engineers Principles of Safety, Affordability, and Pliability!!
Structural Performance Improvements, without the added costs of time, materials, and labor is Affordable, not cheap!! Affordability includes Design, Construction, and Durability of end products, in this case Structural Frame Assemblages of houses, cars, planes, boats, fuel and storage tanks, power generators, levees and bridges, and so on. How would you build an underground levee or dam? How would an Architect build an underground glass window building? How would you drive an underground car? How expensive would it be to move all the highways and train tracks across the country underground? What would our Social Status become as underground dwellers?
Structural Strap-Nets and Extensions improve all types of above-ground buildings and structures to the same safety levels as underground structures, affordably!!
vkamath
10th November 2009 - 03:30 PM
Feed all parameters of the weather into a massively parallel super-computer to determine the exact co-ordinates in space and time of the origin a Tornado. Go there and stamp it out.
Alaxir Zoa
11th November 2009 - 12:52 AM
Superman.
orestis
11th November 2009 - 12:57 AM
QUOTE (rpenner+Nov 3 2009, 01:20 PM)
What's the standard collective noun for tornados? Pardon my ignorance, but I have never seen more than one at a time.
I have heard swarm used.
This site has real and suggested collective nouns:
http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/Examples.
An annoyance of mobile phones (-suggested by kenneth.crane@ntlworld.com-)
A belt of asteroids (-submitted by Jason Harris, harrij1@weiss.che.utexas.edu-)
A chattering of choughs
A pencil of lines (proper contemporary group term in mathematics. -submitted by ojo6-)
eggster7
12th November 2009 - 03:08 AM
QUOTE (Alaxir Zoa+Nov 11 2009, 12:52 AM)
Superman.
Can't take that credit, as the concept of continuous structural frame assemblage reinforcing has been around for years, way before I was born; but can take credit for being the first in figuring out how to best install continuous flexible steel reinforcing!! Outraced a whole lot of engineers and scientists!!
Thanks for the superman reference, but that should go to the structural strap-nets systems, not me.
God Bless and Speed; Randy
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