China is preparing the largest ever artificial rain. Its goal is to increase the amount of precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau.
Summertime clouds and rainfall in North Texas.
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The Sky River project was prepared by experts from the Tsinghua University. Based on the available information it will rely on a technique known as cloud seeding. To put it simply, you take silver iodide and spray it into the clouds from either a plane or a rocket. The particles of silver iodide then server as condensation cores – small ice crystal form on them and those then fall to the ground as rain. Five hundred special “boilers” were used so far to produce silver iodide and the distribution was done simply – by the wind.
Modifying the weather in Tibet is a critical innovation to solve China’s water shortage problem. It will make an important contribution not only to China’s development and world prosperity, but also the well being of the entire human race.
*Lei Fanpei
So far it is unclear when exactly will the Sky River will start but it has already sparked controversy. For example, Janos Pasztor from the Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative says that cloud seeding on such a massive scale can alter the weather at a completely different location and those locations would then be “robbed” of precipitation that would otherwise happen there and not over the Tibetan Plateau.
Sources:
- http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2138866/china-needs-more-water-so-its-building-rain-making-network-three
- https://gizmodo.com/chinas-ambitious-new-rain-making-system-would-be-as-big-1825536740
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Manipulating the weather should not be taken slightly, this could easily become in a new type of weapon, or perhaps it already is.
well, so far we can only make it rain as I understand it and only when there are clouds over the place where you want it to rain. That's not a weapon at least I can't see it being used heavily in most places that would be strategically useful.
Nice one, playing with the nature for artificial rain water don't you think it will harm the earth in some other way!
Thanks for sharing
Yeah, sadly the atmosphere (and the weather because of that) is just too big of a "chaos" for us to simulate it properly, at least for now. Maybe once we got computers powerful enough to actually simulate it with close to a 100 % rate of success that it would be safe, but for now I do feel like it is a bit too risky.
It would be a great success to fight against the climate change. Cities like 'Cape Town' of South Africa needs this kind of initiative to come out from drought situation.
Thanks to u for sharing about this new innovation.
well, I don't really see it that way. Climate change isn't just the lack of rain somewhere, it's a much larger and broader subject and I don't think that the solution to it is "let's poke our noses into the atmosphere because we need rain here and there"
It just seem like something that needs a bit more thought you know...
haha. yes, u can explain it like that too. Disturbing the nature with some man made chemicals.
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I don't know, I think China is going to get burnt with all their enviro-damage and hubris. They need to stop screwing around and start respecting the environment.
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