[Yak]

I'm not a weather expert but I'm not so sure . . . according to the article: Over four summer months the emitters were switched on when the required atmospheric level of humidity reached 30 per cent or more.

If this device is just condensing the local ambient humidity present near this (or any?) ocean coast, would it only come at the low cost of just making the local air less humid just for a short while, until the humidity is soon replaced the the neighboring ocean again? If the source is the neighboring ocean would it really be "stealing" somebody else's rain, in this case?

In either case, I bet those huge ionizers would create one heckuva a lightning show.

[bgill]

If the source is the neighboring ocean would it really be "stealing" somebody else's rain, in this case?

Ok, then, poor fishies are being deprived of their water!!!

So, what happens with the salt? If they're stealing water from the ocean, then at some point that should compensate for the melting glaciers so we won't have to worry about world-wide floods in 2012.