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PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec 01, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- GLTC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- In the news release, As 2008 Hurricane Season Ends, U.S. Should Prepare to Fight Hurricanes in 2009, issued earlier today by GelTech Solutions Inc. over PR Newswire, the sub headline "By Peter Cordani," was inadvertently omitted by PR Newswire. Complete, corrected release follows:

As 2008 Hurricane Season Ends, U.S. Should Prepare to Fight Hurricanes in 2009

By Peter Cordani

The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season ended Sunday, and not a day too soon. While recent weeks have been quiet, July saw Hurricane Dolly lash South Padre Island, Texas, with 100 MPH winds. Come September, Gustav slammed New Orleans and the Louisiana coast. Ike trashed Galveston, Texas; hammered downtown Houston, and swirled inland, wreaking havoc clear through the Great Lakes. All told, storms killed some 900 people, overwhelmingly Caribbeans, while Americans endured $54 billion in cyclone-related damage. This was the second most destructive season ever, exceeded only by 2005 -- which witnessed Hurricane Katrina.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081201/NEM044 )

Until June 1 heralds 2009's season, Americans should ponder this question: Must we always greet hurricanes by evacuating millions, then expending billions to restore shattered lives and replace battered property? Instead, why not use Yankee Ingenuity to tame Mother Nature, as man has done since he erected the first dam?

I have wondered this since I invented my weather-modification technology nine years ago. WeatherTech has appeared on virtually every major U.S. news channel. I envision aircraft dropping my environmentally friendly, super-absorbent powder on an isolated section of a hurricane's eye-wall. This would soak up huge amounts of moisture on contact and simultaneously cool the storm's core temperature. This potentially would drain some of its energy and sufficiently disrupt it to lessen its destructive force. Decreasing a hurricane's power by even one category would save lives and property.

Dr. Hugh Willoughby, former director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division, initially welcomed my idea.

"It has a chance," Willoughby told CBS' "The Early Show" on July 7, 2000. "This one actually is something that we'll take a look at."

On Willoughby's suggestion, my team and I used an airplane on July 19, 2001 to drop $40,000 worth of my patented powder into a thunderstorm off Florida's east coast. The cloud formation soon vanished. "The people in the tower visually confirmed that there was a tall buildup, and the next moment it was gone," from Doppler radar, Palm Beach International Airport control tower supervisor Kevin Sullivan told the Associated Press.

Nonetheless, Willoughby now criticizes the very idea he previously welcomed. Willoughby never has visited my laboratory nor seen WeatherTech in action. Yet he has voiced his opinion about it in response to virtually every interview I have given on hurricane mitigation. Willoughby has prevented the public from understanding my alternative to today's policy of pre-emptive surrender to hurricanes.

For instance, Willoughby has told interviewers that slowing a hurricane requires 10 aircraft. He then said 300 planes were necessary. Most recently, he told NBC's Palm Beach affiliate, WPTV: "Basically, it would take more C5As -- the military heavy-lift aircraft -- than exist in the world, by a huge factor."

Weather-modification expert Waylon "Ben" Livingston, a cloud physicist and former NOAA project director, finds this laughable. He believes "seeding" a hurricane requires as few as two small aircraft to drop material into it and decelerate its devastating winds.

I believe eight to 10 powder-filled Boeing 747s would get the job done.

What is the right answer? Who knows? The answer lies in field testing, not ceaseless debate. Hurricane reduction should involve NOAA's scientists, military or FEMA pilots, and my hurricane-calming powder cascading from planes into storms. Everybody wins!

This is what perplexes me most: Asked, "What do you think of Peter Cordani's idea?" a normal person would reply: "It may or may not work. But good luck. If he succeeds, imagine the benefits to humanity."

Renewed federal interest suggests that this idea no longer seems farfetched. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R -- Texas) wants $100 million for hurricane-reduction research. Meanwhile, the Homeland Security Department is considering a $1.6 million proposal by University of Colorado professor Joe Golden and his colleagues for hurricane-related lab studies.

While Uncle Sam's anti-hurricane efforts remain theoretical, WeatherTech is poised for deployment. My team and I could have launched airplanes over the Gulf of Mexico to soothe Hurricanes Dolly, Gustav, and Ike. Imagine Galveston today with a few downed trees and shutters, rather than a city reduced to splinters.

Before hurricanes renew their deadly twist next June, let's prepare to battle them rather than simply shutter our homes and run like hell.

Palm Beach inventor and entrepreneur Peter Cordani designed the WeatherTech hurricane-mitigation system (U.S. Patent 6,315,213).

For further information, contact Tom Strenta at 561-531-1085.

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As 2008 Hurricane Season Ends, U.S. Should Prepare to Fight Hurricanes in 2009

PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season ended Sunday, and not a day too soon. While recent weeks have been quiet, July saw Hurricane Dolly lash South Padre Island, Texas, with 100 MPH winds. Come September, Gustav slammed New Orleans and the Louisiana coast. Ike trashed Galveston, Texas; hammered downtown Houston, and swirled inland, wreaking havoc clear through the Great Lakes. All told, storms killed some 900 people, overwhelmingly Caribbeans, while Americans endured $54 billion in cyclone-related damage. This was the second most destructive season ever, exceeded only by 2005 -- which witnessed Hurricane Katrina.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081201/NEM044 )

Until June 1 heralds 2009's season, Americans should ponder this question: Must we always greet hurricanes by evacuating millions, then expending billions to restore shattered lives and replace battered property? Instead, why not use Yankee Ingenuity to tame Mother Nature, as man has done since he erected the first dam?

I have wondered this since I invented my weather-modification technology nine years ago. WeatherTech has appeared on virtually every major U.S. news channel. I envision aircraft dropping my environmentally friendly, super-absorbent powder on an isolated section of a hurricane's eye-wall. This would soak up huge amounts of moisture on contact and simultaneously cool the storm's core temperature. This potentially would drain some of its energy and sufficiently disrupt it to lessen its destructive force. Decreasing a hurricane's power by even one category would save lives and property.

Dr. Hugh Willoughby, former director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division, initially welcomed my idea.

"It has a chance," Willoughby told CBS' "The Early Show" on July 7, 2000. "This one actually is something that we'll take a look at."

On Willoughby's suggestion, my team and I used an airplane on July 19, 2001 to drop $40,000 worth of my patented powder into a thunderstorm off Florida's east coast. The cloud formation soon vanished. "The people in the tower visually confirmed that there was a tall buildup, and the next moment it was gone," from Doppler radar, Palm Beach International Airport control tower supervisor Kevin Sullivan told the Associated Press.

Nonetheless, Willoughby now criticizes the very idea he previously welcomed. Willoughby never has visited my laboratory nor seen WeatherTech in action. Yet he has voiced his opinion about it in response to virtually every interview I have given on hurricane mitigation. Willoughby has prevented the public from understanding my alternative to today's policy of pre-emptive surrender to hurricanes.

For instance, Willoughby has told interviewers that slowing a hurricane requires 10 aircraft. He then said 300 planes were necessary. Most recently, he told NBC's Palm Beach affiliate, WPTV: "Basically, it would take more C5As -- the military heavy-lift aircraft -- than exist in the world, by a huge factor."

Weather-modification expert Waylon "Ben" Livingston, a cloud physicist and former NOAA project director, finds this laughable. He believes "seeding" a hurricane requires as few as two small aircraft to drop material into it and decelerate its devastating winds.

I believe eight to 10 powder-filled Boeing 747s would get the job done.

What is the right answer? Who knows? The answer lies in field testing, not ceaseless debate. Hurricane reduction should involve NOAA's scientists, military or FEMA pilots, and my hurricane-calming powder cascading from planes into storms. Everybody wins!

This is what perplexes me most: Asked, "What do you think of Peter Cordani's idea?" a normal person would reply: "It may or may not work. But good luck. If he succeeds, imagine the benefits to humanity."

Renewed federal interest suggests that this idea no longer seems farfetched. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R -- Texas) wants $100 million for hurricane-reduction research. Meanwhile, the Homeland Security Department is considering a $1.6 million proposal by University of Colorado professor Joe Golden and his colleagues for hurricane-related lab studies.

While Uncle Sam's anti-hurricane efforts remain theoretical, WeatherTech is poised for deployment. My team and I could have launched airplanes over the Gulf of Mexico to soothe Hurricanes Dolly, Gustav, and Ike. Imagine Galveston today with a few downed trees and shutters, rather than a city reduced to splinters.

Before hurricanes renew their deadly twist next June, let's prepare to battle them rather than simply shutter our homes and run like hell.

Palm Beach inventor and entrepreneur Peter Cordani designed the WeatherTech hurricane-mitigation system (U.S. Patent 6,315,213).

For further information, contact Tom Strenta at 561-531-1085.

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