United Arab Emirates is using cloud seeding tech to make it rain
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#2I live in Dubai, and the rains this year appear to be more frequent than the last two years. Perhaps the new seeding material is showing results
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#3I wonder if large-scale cloud seeding could have the effect of taking rain from places that would otherwise get it?
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#4I wonder if large-scale cloud seeding could have the effect of taking rain from places that would otherwise get it?
It would have to, unless you also consciously increase the rate of evaporation at the same time. Could be bad news for countries with arid neighbors to their direct west.
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#5I wonder if large-scale cloud seeding could have the effect of taking rain from places that would otherwise get it?
It would have to, unless you also consciously increase the rate of evaporation at the same time. Could be bad news for countries with arid neighbors to their direct west.
Sounds a bit like the dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt over Nile Water (Ethiopia is building a dam) so definitely plenty of political precedent for conflict over water resources and this will exacerbate this.
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#7It's amazing how much new tech is getting tested in the middle east. In the next 30 years I think they are the future.
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#8It's amazing how much new tech is getting tested in the middle east. In the next 30 years I think they are the future.
This tech is not really new - in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, "cloud seeding" airplanes have been flying for years (to avoid hailstorms rather than to make it rain), although the efficacy of the method is disputed, so it's not really widespread. I only learned that this is done where I live when I saw a small airplane flying dangerously close to an approaching storm (which GA aircraft usually do their best to avoid) and then read an article about how they miscalculated the strength/direction of the storm and barely managed to avoid it.
Wikipedia article (only available in German): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagelabwehr#Einsatz_in_Deutsch...
Article about the history of anti-hail airplanes in the Rosenheim region: https://www.hagelabwehr-rosenheim.de/geschichtliches.php
Re: United Arab Emirates is using cloud seeding tech to make it rain
#9It's amazing how much new tech is getting tested in the middle east. In the next 30 years I think they are the future.
This tech is not really new - in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, "cloud seeding" airplanes have been flying for years (to avoid hailstorms rather than to make it rain), although the efficacy of the method is disputed, so it's not really widespread. I only learned that this is done where I live when I saw a small airplane flying dangerously close to an approaching storm (which GA aircraft usually do their best to av…
It's been happening in the US for quite awhile too.
For example, Colorado regularly performs cloud seeding and other weather modification techniques - https://cwcb.colorado.gov/focus-areas/supply/weather-modific...
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#10I wonder if large-scale cloud seeding could have the effect of taking rain from places that would otherwise get it?
Possible but a lot of rain just falls in the middle of the ocean, so not a great loss.