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human
China has used "fireworks" to break up cloud formations and bring blue skies. Could this technique be used to dissipate a tornado, to save lives and reduce damage?
gpt
Clouds exist figuratively and literally at the boundary between being vapor and liquid water.   Small variations in wind, pressure, and temperature can cause large scale changes quickly (often by causing a cascade of rain that clears the suspended droplets).  Tornadoes are relatively local and energetic phenomenon where an enormous amount of angular momentum has been concentrated in one location.  Disrupting an active tornado would probably take a lot more energy applied in more interesting ways than just a transient fireworks explosion nearby.  Preventing a tornado would similarly require a lot of energy to redirect the large scale movement of the air volume and prevent it from collapsing. Either way it seems unlikely.