Electrified Drones for Cloud Seeding

[repo]

Scientists are zapping clouds with electricity to make rain | CNN

Researchers from the University of Reading, in the UK, are using drones to give clouds an electrical charge, which could help increase rainfall in water-stressed regions.

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[Muzaffer]

Scientists are zapping clouds with electricity to make rain | CNN

Researchers from the University of Reading, in the UK, are using drones to give clouds an electrical charge, which could help increase rainfall in water-stressed regions.

edition.cnn.com

China is the most country that uses this tactic

 

[jabsveg276]

Scientists are zapping clouds with electricity to make rain | CNN

Researchers from the University of Reading, in the UK, are using drones to give clouds an electrical charge, which could help increase rainfall in water-stressed regions.

edition.cnn.com

This could be amazing for Somalia, we're currently experiencing a drought.

 

[xabashi]

Ethiopia has been experimenting cloud seeding for the last 6 months in cooperation with the UAE. May be this could help some parts of our region.

 

[Anubis]

Ethiopia has been experimenting cloud seeding for the last 6 months in cooperation with the UAE. May be this could help some parts of our region.

There's little proof that cloud seeding actually works, so i doubt it'll really bring any noticeable change.

 

[repo]

Ethiopia has been experimenting cloud seeding for the last 6 months in cooperation with the UAE. May be this could help some parts of our region.

In that they are using salt or something else whereas they are using electric charge in the experiment.

 

[Shimbiris]

There's little proof that cloud seeding actually works, so i doubt it'll really bring any noticeable change.

I've talked about this in a thread of yours as someone who lives in the UAE:

Cloud seeding hasn't done much for the UAE where it's apparently commonplace now. It was honestly colder and more rainy when I was a child about a decade and a half ago. Back then the mornings could get cold enough for you to see your breath and there were rainstorms that could last 1-2 weeks and even topple trees and I would wager at least 2-4 weeks worth of rainfall. Now it never gets that cold and rainfall over the last few years has seemed abysmal enough during winter to be probably less than a week's worth of rain during some years.

This last winter around Sharjah-Dubai was terrible, to be honest. Don't even recall it raining at any point and if it did it was light pitter-patter at best. None of the literal storms that used to occur during my childhood.