MacMusic  |  PcMusic  |  440 Software  |  440 Forums  |  440TV  |  Zicos
rain
Recherche

Drones Are Zapping Clouds With Electricity To Create Rain In UAE Project

jeudi 22 juillet 2021, 09:00 , par Slashdot/Apple
turp182 shares a report from USA Today: [T]he UAE is now testing a new method that has drones fly into clouds to give them an electric shock to trigger rain production. The project is getting renewed interest after the UAE's National Center of Meteorology recently published a series of videos on Instagram of heavy rain in parts of the country. Water gushed past trees, and cars drove on rain-soaked roads. The videos were accompanied by radar images of clouds tagged '#cloudseeding.' The Independent reports recent rain is part of the drone cloud seeding project.

The UAE oversaw more than 200 cloud seeding operations in the first half of 2020, successfully creating excess rainfall, the National News reported. There have been successes in the U.S., as well as China, India, and Thailand. Long-term cloud seeding in the mountains of Nevada have increased snowpack by 10% or more each year, according to research published by the American Meteorological Society. A 10-year cloud seeding experiment in Wyoming resulted in 5-10% increases in snowpack, according to the State of Wyoming. According to a researcher that worked on the drone initiative, 'the aim of the UAE's project is to change the balance of electrical charge on the cloud droplets, causing water droplets to clump together and fall as rain when they are big enough.'

Read more of this story at Slashdot.
rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ya6V1jw1EY0/drones-are-zapping-clouds-with-electricity-to-c...
News copyright owned by their original publishers | Copyright © 2004 - 2024 Zicos / 440Network
Date Actuelle
jeu. 28 mars - 13:26 CET