Could the gradual saponification of the oceans surfaces, by man,
Nothing dissolved wthin the bulk or layered on the surface increases the vapor pressure of water over the bulk fluid.
The simple way to starve a hurricane is to reduce the vapor pressure of the ocean. This could be accomplished by spreading something on the surface, Enviro-whiner caterwauling aside. OK, let's run the numbers: a cylinder one millimeter thick with a 25 mile radius to blanket the ocean:
(0.1 cm/mm) thickness
(5280 feet/mile)(12 inches/foot)(2.54 cm/inch)(25) = 4,023,360 cm radius
Cylinder volume is h(pi)r^2
(0.1 cm)(pi)(4,023,360 cm)^2 = 5.085x10^12 cm^3 or 5.09x10^9 liters or 5.09x10^6 cubic meters or 6.65x10^6 cubic yards
6.65 million cubic yards of anything is a whole bunch. If it is mariner's linseed oil (spread on troubled waters) with a density of 0.93 g/cm^3 you are looking at 4.7 million metric tonnes or ten billion pounds. How will you transport it? How will you disperse it?
It is obvious that no anthropogenic anything will result in 10 billion pounds of anything in a 25-mile radius of ocean. The numbers are much worse for soluble stuff. Oh yeah - waves disrupt the surface.
Not even wrong.
BTW, saponifaction is aqueous alkaline hydrolysis of an ester. You are talking out of your butt.
