Immediately east of Abu Dhabi is the Northern tip of the Al Hajar Mountains which go the straight of Hormez. From there is the Gulf of Oman.
The mountain area is very rough and has very little population or agriculture.
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.
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.
Immediately east of Abu Dhabi is the Northern tip of the Al Hajar Mountains which go the straight of Hormez. From there is the Gulf of Oman.
The mountain area is very rough and has very little population or agriculture.