Re:Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather system...
by dxbydt on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:34PM
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You don't need silver iodide & suchlike. You can build a simple catapult & fire drones into the cloud. The drone delivers an electric charge to the cloud. This dislodges the water which falls down as rain. This is already routine[1]
Re:Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather system...
by ErikVandeWater on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:52PM
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The article says they are in the proof of concept stage.
Re:Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather system...
by dxbydt on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @08:08PM
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that bbc report is from march. here's a recent update from last week. it actually works very well - lots of rain.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2021/07/21/cloud-s...
https://www.newsweek.com/dubai-creates-fake-rain-using-drone...
It seems it would be simple to set up in a lab conditions that would be favorable for a cloud seeding mission in the real world (conditions where the air is moist but not precipitating). Insert the silver iodide and see how much of the water in the air condenses. Multiply it out to see how much silver iodide you would need to substantially increase rain. Test in different conditions to see the operating window for cloud seeding is.
It should be noted that the benefit of cloud seeding is not necessarily increasing total rainfall in a region, but controlling where that rainfall occurs.