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Re:In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate w... by elil17 on Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:34PM (#38120510)
Yes, that’s exactly right! Although I would caveat that and say that we don’t know whether it is actually useful engineering-wise.
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Re:In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate w... by depereo on Thursday November 02, 2023 @07:00PM (#38121603)
'clumped vapor' might be way more effective for cloudseeding
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Re:In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate w... by elil17 on Thursday November 02, 2023 @07:05PM (#38121653)
Yes, although the molecule clusters evaporate rapidly after they leave the surface
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Re:In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate w... by gpm on Thursday November 02, 2023 @08:27PM (#38122541)
Even if they're in a high humidity environment where you could plausibly seed a cloud in the first place?
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Re:In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate w... by elil17 on Friday November 03, 2023 @09:06AM (#38128130)
Thinking about this again, and I'm not sure. On one hand, yes, you could theoretically see a situation where the clusters want to grow because there are so many water molecules around them. But normally we seed clouds with much, much larger aerosols. Larger diameter = different (more favorable, I believe) surface energy.
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