latimes.com — Chinese weather specialists used chemicals to engineer Beijing's heaviest rainfall of the year, helping to relieve drought and rinse dust from China's capital, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.
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monkeygetMay 6, 2006
The russian have exactly the opposite technology : a way to dismiss the clouds. For example they used it to clean the sky during a ceremony at moscow with important foreign dignitary.Too bad i can't find an article on it.
adambrownMay 6, 2006
No, I agree that this is amazing also... but you can only have so much moisture in the atmosphere. There are already areas that get into conflict because a country or city upstream uses way too much water and the people downstrem don't have enough... What if we start getting into conflicts because countries start "stealing" the moisture before it gets to their neighbors?
Closed AccountMay 6, 2006
um and this is the same thingfirst you need clouds to seed themsilver iodide does disperse clouds by making them drop the rainit has been looked into for miltary to make bomb runs easier.
atomic1fireMay 6, 2006
what about cuba that hasnt colapsed yet
demondogMay 6, 2006
Great, now the US is going to be flooded with cheap Chinese rain...
jabbarMay 7, 2006
Per capita emissions of a few nations:USA - 5 tons of carbon per person per yearJapan and Western Europe - range from 1.6-4.2 tons of carbon per person per yeardeveloping world - averages 0.6 tons per person per yearChina - 0.76 tons of carbon per person per yearIndia - 0.29 tons of carbon per person per yearData comes from Peter Singer's book, One World. Citation: See G. Marland, T.A. Boden, and R.J Andres, Global Regional and National Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.USA - Guilty as chargedvvaduva - i guess income does matter. do your research.
jabbarMay 7, 2006
Calcium chloride
green67May 7, 2006
cool...artificial rain......understood......how about a reverse process?.....disperse a rain cloud?....stop a flood?....kill a hurricane?.....I guess we are playing god after all.....dugg
emjaychinaMay 7, 2006
Well, glad everone is thinking.Here's a curveball for you people who say they are stealing rain from other areas and will cause droughts. What happens when they seed clouds that would otherwise have dumped all that fresh water into the ocean. Lots of fresh water could be saved if we caused it to rain before clouds went out to sea.Correct? :)
megatonMay 9, 2006
Wow! I get modded down for THIS s**t? Per capita? Do you not know how many people there are in China? THEY HAVE THE WORLD'S LARGEST POPULATION! That, combined with their high pollution makes them the most polluting country in the world!Jesus, I'm moving back to Slashdot. At least the readers weren't such idiots...
mrlost117May 9, 2006
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