Posted on 07/21/2021 10:49:39 PM PDT by blueplum
Traditionally silver iodide is used, IIRC.
What is described is not cloud seeding.
Arabs use water like other cultures use hi-dollar art or jewelry: as ostentation. That’s because putting your water on display necessarily means absorbing the cost of the evaporative losses, which in that corner of the world is extreme.
And compared to say, Baghdad, lakes around Dubai would would be particularly wasteful because it’s coastal. Odds are 50/50 that the moisture that’s evaporating from your lakes would be blown straight out to sea, where it would do no one any good, not even the fishes. Not much ROI there.
The chief advantage of this process is that they’re reaping benefits from water they didn’t spend a cent on gaining control over. Or processing. Or transporting. Or storing. It was just moisture that happened to be passing by in the clouds, and they shocked it out of the sky without losing use of a single ounce of water they’ve spent so dearly to make potable. And coastal areas in Arabia are different from the interior in that they have abundant moisture in the air, even in the hottest months.
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