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Michio Kaku discussed laser-assisted water condensation, an experimental technique related to cloud seeding. The mention of hurricanes is on influencing rainfall in hurricanes, not the formation or movement of hurricanes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser-assisted_water_condensation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/aug/30/firing-laser-beams-atmosphere-rain https://www.spie.org/news/3996-laser-induced-water-condensation-in-the-atmosphere#_=_ https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-24-18-20494&id=349608 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0022-3727/45/29/293001 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21878910/ https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-24-7-7364&id=338539 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-prof-michio-kaku-say-haarp-caused-irma-and-harvey/ https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2013/02/epjconf_up2012_12008.pdf https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:37112 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3265376/ The interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm1_TfTgUag https://www.cbsnews.com/video/controlling-the-weather-is-it-possible/?ftag=CNM-16-10abd6g
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