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Dubai makes its own RAIN to tackle 122F heat: Drones blast clouds with electrical charge to produce downpours
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| 21 Jul 2021
| Rachael Bunyan
Posted on 07/21/2021 10:49:39 PM PDT by blueplum
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so that's what the ufos are, and, why aren't we using them over forest fires?
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posted on
07/21/2021 10:49:39 PM PDT
by
blueplum
To: blueplum
Because forest fires cause their own weather. Severe thermals taking that heat upwards and drawing fresh air (fuel) in at the surface.
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posted on
07/21/2021 10:53:28 PM PDT
by
datura
(The voice that brought you peace has nothing left to say.)
To: blueplum
They really should focus on making artificial lakes, I think.
The water never flows far in the hydrocycle and, keep making the lakes and eventually I think they would stay.
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posted on
07/21/2021 10:54:00 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
To: blueplum
I have heard of this being done before in farming communities. Maybe not with this same technology, but I’m sure that I’ve heard of it, and have wondered why aren’t more communities doing it in drought situations.
Cloud seeding.
To: blueplum
Weird.
I was just thinking about Dubai a couple of hours ago and “if you imagine it we can do it” or whatever they claimed. I was thinking of the indoor skiing.
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posted on
07/21/2021 11:07:07 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(The Lord, The Christ, and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
To: lee martell
Seeding is unpredictable. However, if it works as well as this story seems to suggest, I can see communities doing this. It could be the answer to drought in the Mid-West.
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posted on
07/21/2021 11:10:45 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
To: SaveFerris
Isn’t skiing about as popular as ice hockey?
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posted on
07/21/2021 11:11:23 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
To: datura
Right. Create their own weather. Which in some cases means lightening storms. So why not drone the fire, and drain those clouds before the electric charge within the cloud builds up to lightening strength? Harness the weather the fire creates. (not that I know a hoot about how thermal dynamics would figure into my brilliant idea) :)
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posted on
07/21/2021 11:50:51 PM PDT
by
blueplum
("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
And Allah sends down rain from the skies, and gives therewith life to the earth after its death: verily in this is a Sign for those who listen.
— Surah 16:65
Oh? So rain can come down from the sky without Allah’s specific intervention?
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:04:36 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
Oh? So rain can come down from the sky without Allah’s specific intervention? Or maybe Allah is using his new AI beast to force nature into submission.
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:20:00 AM PDT
by
Golden Eagle
(I refuse to submit to their psychological warfare, much less injections.)
To: blueplum
Here - imagine trying to fly a drone in this image:
Innovative idea, but Dubai is working with clear skies and a relatively uniform color setting. Dark colored objects have lots of thermal uprisings (it sucks flying a small plane in the summer over a mix of forest and fields). Deserts are brown.
The thermal well of a major fire is really quite scary if you ever get to see one on the lines. I’m not interested in seeing one up close again.
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:33:59 AM PDT
by
datura
(The voice that brought you peace has nothing left to say.)
To: blueplum
Fire tornado.
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:37:43 AM PDT
by
datura
(The voice that brought you peace has nothing left to say.)
To: datura
well, those pictures certainly brought my drone back down to earth with a thud. On to the next brilliant idea....
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posted on
07/22/2021 12:53:31 AM PDT
by
blueplum
("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
To: blueplum
A regular Thomas Edison, you! With your sticktoitiveness and determination governed by a hard headed practicality! LOL very funny.
To: Jonty30
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posted on
07/22/2021 3:33:59 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(The Lord, The Christ, and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
To: blueplum
Think of the protests and lawsuits.
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posted on
07/22/2021 4:10:18 AM PDT
by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: Jonty30
They really should focus on making artificial lakes, It starts with restoring the grasses - then trees. Then the water can stay in the ground
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posted on
07/22/2021 4:43:44 AM PDT
by
11th_VA
(Joe Manchin is the defacto President )
To: 11th_VA
However it needs to be done.
I think it is key to greening the world.
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posted on
07/22/2021 4:47:55 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
To: blueplum
All I saw was rain, I did not see a drone making it rain. So I am skeptical of this story.
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posted on
07/22/2021 4:56:36 AM PDT
by
jpsb
To: jpsb
cloud seeding has been around for a long time. Its used all over the world
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posted on
07/22/2021 6:47:13 AM PDT
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ckilmer
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