Abu Dhabi Creates Artificial Rainstorms in Desert

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  1. skip

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    Scientists in Abu Dhabi have succeed in creating 50 rainstorms out of clear skies in their desert Kingdom during the summer of 2010. The technology "utilized ionizers resembling giant lampshades to generate fields of negatively charged particles, which create cloud formation."

    No mention is made as to the amount of rainfall produced.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/abu-dhabi-rainstorm_n_803554.html
     
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  3. porkstock41

    porkstock41 Every time across from me...not there!

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    unique idea. i'm also wondering how much rain it produced. the water has to come from somewhere though right? is it already in the air, and this machine allows it to form clouds so it can rain?

    "fake storms are said to have baffled Abu Dhabi residents by also producing hail, wind gales and even lightning."

    sounds like it even has the potential to get out of hand. whoops, we started a tornado.
     
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  5. skip

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    Lampshade shape? You mean almost like a Pyramid? Perhaps that's one of the purposes of the pyramids. Maybe they had some technology to bring rain?
     
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  7. drew5147

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    They have had this technology for years, if not decades.


    It is not news.
     
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    http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_gui...s_to_have_device_which_creates_ma.html?r=news

    Seems it can't actually create moisure, I would think this would be something that could be used better walking the edges of a desert back, shrinking it from the outside in.

    Of course, there should be the question of what consequences this will have on the weather patterns... You can't change one part of it and not have it affect the rest of it in someway.
     
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    So it's simply a matter of waiting for the humidity to reach 30% threshold, then turn on the machines and it causes that humidity to precipitate. Nice!
     
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  13. ChronicTom

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    I could be wrong, but the problem isnt that the deserts are dry as much as it is that any moisture that does hit them, is evaporated and blown away...

    These could help stop that... although, as I said, I think it would just cause different issues elsewhere...

    If the winds were blowing the moisture out over the oceans, and you were stopping that... it may not be a huge deal.... but if normally that moisture was coming down on land, you would just move the desert.
     
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    I think there's a peculiar issue with Gulf States and rain. As the deserts heat up during the day, they draw in moisture from the sea, however it's not enough to cause rain. But if you hit it with negative ions, it can cause precipitation, thereby not wasting the moisture (which would just evaporate before precipitating).

    My question is how much energy is needed to cause this rain?
     
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    lol, well, they do have more oil then water... using oil to buy rain seems about right...
     
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    Hey why don't we ship the Mideast tankers full of water for about the same price they charge us for oil?
     
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    Likely against environmental regulations... lol
     
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    I also believe this is old tech. I also believe our dependence on oil is fake. Free energy is available if the elites would allow it. Tesla is my homeboy.
     
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    The idea may be old... building the equipment to do it (at least large scale) and actually doing it are new.
     
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