A scientist from Temple University thinks taking an idea from China is the way to stop killer tornadoes across the Midwest.

Physicist Rongjia Tao says that building massive walls in multiple spots across the Great Plains would be an effective deterrent to tornado development.

“If we build three east-west great walls in the American Midwest …. one in North Dakota, one along the border between Kansas and Oklahoma to the east, and the third one in south Texas and Louisiana, we will diminish the tornado threats in the Tornado Alley forever,” Tao told the USA Today.

The structures would be 1000 feet high and at least 150 feet wide.

Tao attributed the major tornadoes to a lack of west-to-east mountains in the region that weakens airflow.

However, many severe weather experts are skeptical.

“It wouldn’t work,” Harold Broos of the National Severe Storms Laboratory told USA Today in an e-mail.  Brooks pointed out that China receives deadly tornadoes even with their mountain ranges.  He also said that Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas have ranges similar in size to the proposal and they have massive tornadoes.