Posted on 01/03/2011 10:04:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Technology created 50 rainstorms in Abu Dhabi's Al Ain region last year
For centuries people living in the Middle East have dreamed of turning the sandy desert into land fit for growing crops with fresh water on tap.
Now that holy grail is a step closer after scientists employed by the ruler of Abu Dhabi claim to have generated a series of downpours.
Most of the storms were at the height of the summer in July and August when there is no rain at all.
People living in Abu Dhabi were baffled by the rainfall which sometimes turned into hail and included gales and lightening.
The scientists have been working secretly for United Arab Emirates president Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
They have been using giant ionisers, shaped like stripped down lampshades on steel poles, to generate fields of negatively charged particles.
These promote cloud formation and researchers hoped they could then produce rain.
In a confidential company video, the founder of the Swiss company in charge of the project, Metro Systems International, boasted of success.
Helmut Fluhrer said: 'We have achieved a number of rainfalls.'
It is believed to be the first time the system has produced rain from clear skies, according to the Sunday Times.
In the past, China and other countries have used chemicals for cloud-seeding to both induce and prevent rain falling.
Last June Metro Systems built five ionising sites each with 20 emitters which can send trillions of cloud-forming ions into the atmosphere.
Over four summer months the emitters were switched on when the required atmospheric level of humidity reached 30 per cent or more.
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HOW THE TECHNOLOGY WORKS:
The Metro System scientists used ionisers to produce negatively charged particles called electrons.
They have a natural tendency to attach to tiny specks of dust which are ever-present in the atmosphere in the desert-regions.
These are then carried up from the emitters by convection - upward currents of air generated by the heat release from sunlight as it hits the ground.
Once the dust particles reach the right height for cloud formation, the charges will attract water molecules floating in the air which then start to condense around them.
If there is sufficient moisture in the air, it induces billions of droplets to form which finally means cloud and rain.
we know how to make it snow. just have al gore give a speech some place; instant blizzard.
This sounds like demons at work.
More like Burt Lancaster.
The spice must flow...
He just promised and threatened, this sounds like it actually produces.
HAARP?
I thought wearing tinfoil over your head caused rain.
Hmmm...if this actually works, and you can get the rain to fall on your territory, then, I would guess, there will be less rain EAST of where the rain fell. If I lived east of where they were doing this, I would not be happy about it at all.
It’s something like water rights from a river.
How much oil did they have to burn to power the ionizers????
The greens won’t be pleased :)
Might be hard to claim humidity rights in court.
using ionizers to feed the atmosphere.
a hair-raising development.
just hope they don’t forget to turn it off overnight
and flood the region.
Solar power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1goOzyr5o
Steve McQueen in “Baby The Rain Must Fall.” The coolest of the cool. Only Clint Eastwood was in his league.
I know they have been seeding clouds forever, but this kind of stuff — along with planetary terra-forming, really scares me.
How long before humanity finally invents a weather bomb? What happens when the ability to influence the weather suddenly becomes a political and perhaps even a military tool?
Years ago, I thought of writing an allegorical novel to demonstrate the problems with government control of the economy. To illustrate point, the story was about this very subject — the ability to control, or at least influence, the weather. Needless to say that after all the domestic and global special interests began to control access to this technology, the inevitable ending would be the type of planetary-wide catastrophic environmental devastation that the AGW whackos are always threatening us with.
Sounds like Wilhelm Reich’s orgone generator to me.
HOW THE TECHNOLOGY WORKS:
The Metro System scientists used ionisers to produce negatively charged particles called electrons.
Glad you reminded yourself to put that explanation in. Too bad you don’t have any pix.
“Sounds like Wilhelm Reich’s orgone generator to me.”
Exactly right. If you have time Google Wilhelm Reich. You will find his orgone generator has been in small scale use for decades. There are alternative science types who have built them and managed to either break up certain kinds of clouds or harvest atmospheric moisture as rain.
Orgone is a dangerous thing. And it’s pretty much suppressed.
The feds sent Reich to prison on some charge, I forgot which, then burned all his books and as many of his papers as they could find.
Suppressed science and technology is a huge subject, amply documented, and beyond the scope of this FR post.
But do read up on this if you have the time and inclination.
Wilhelm Reich posited a conjugate, life-annulling energy in opposition to orgone, which he dubbed Deadly Orgone or DOR. He wrote that accumulations of DOR played a role in desertification, and he designed a “cloudbuster” with which he said he could manipulate streams of orgone energy in the atmosphere to induce rain by forcing clouds to form and disperse. It was a set of hollow metal pipes and cables inserted into water, which Reich argued created a stronger orgone energy field than was in the atmosphere, the water drawing the atmospheric orgone through the pipes.[20]
Reich conducted dozens of experiments with the cloudbuster[citation needed], calling the research “Cosmic Orgone Engineering.” In 1953, a drought threatened Maine’s blueberry crop, and several farmers offered to pay Reich if he could make it rain. The weather bureau had reportedly forecast no rain for several days when Reich began the experiment on at 10 a.m. on July 6, 1953. The Bangor Daily News reported on July 24:
Dr. Reich and three assistants set up their “rain-making” device off the shore of Grand Lake, near the Bangor hydro-electric dam ... The device, a set of hollow tubes, suspended over a small cylinder, connected by a cable, conducted a “drawing” operation for about an hour and ten minutes ...
According to a reliable source in Ellsworth the following climactic changes took place in that city on the night of July 6 and the early morning of July 7: “Rain began to fall shortly after ten o’clock Monday evening, first as a drizzle and then by midnight as a gentle, steady rain. Rain continued throughout the night, and a rainfall of 0.24 inches was recorded in Ellsworth the following morning.”
A puzzled witness to the “rain-making” process said: “The queerest looking clouds you ever saw began to form soon after they got the thing rolling.” And later the same witness said the scientists were able to change the course of the wind by manipulation of the device.[50]
The blueberry crop survived, the farmers declared themselves satisfied, and Reich received his fee.[20]
http://www.rexresearch.com/orgone/orgone1.htm
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