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The other comments here talk about hoarding potential for rain in the future and depriving others of it but what about weaponising it? You could potentially annihilate your enemy by generating masses of rainfall and destroying their infrastructure could you not? It wouldn't be as targetted as a missile strike but you could easily say "it wasn't me!"...
so now we're saying weather control/manipulation is real then? i guess the conspiracy nuts were right again.
The conspiracy nuts claim it's intentionally being used to make targeted natural disasters (and typically throw in chemtrail stuff), which is a very different claim than "we can probably increase rainfall a little bit'.
Could this be used in California as an additional fire extinguishing method?
Home to some of the best and brightest engineers in the world and California is still figuring how many firemen, goats and firetrucks to send. Where are Google, Facebook, Apple, SpaceX, California state gov? And Musk is still focused on LA traffic jams. I guess the worst fires in California state history are not enough to sway the titans of industry into action. Even though these fires are happening in their back yar…
I have a better suggestion. Quit pumping out oil. Deal with the root causes of climate change.
Are there any known side-effects of inducing rain in an unusual place like this? The weather is a complex system, so I hesitate to speculate too much, but would it reduce rainfall elsewhere? With geopolitical tensions rising over rights to the Nile, I wonder if rainfall patterns could follow a similar trend.
The amazon rain forest relies on minerals blown from dust storms in the Sahara desert, so therefore terraforming the Sahara would have a negative effect on the amazon. Source https://youtu.be/2hmAeLYMrQg
Could this be used in California as an additional fire extinguishing method?
More prescribed burns in the spring and wet years may help, but I don't think the political willpower is there, given the liability if things get out of hand.
Are there any known side-effects of inducing rain in an unusual place like this? The weather is a complex system, so I hesitate to speculate too much, but would it reduce rainfall elsewhere? With geopolitical tensions rising over rights to the Nile, I wonder if rainfall patterns could follow a similar trend.
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I have no idea why shade isn’t a primary design concern for every park. It is almost always left to “there’s a tiny tree over there that will produce shade in 25 years”. It is shocking.
Heck, my neighborhood is 21 years old and the trees are still too small to provide any meaningful shade.