Some years ago an well known inventor proposed an interesting idea to increase rainfall in arid lands adjacent to oceans.
Large bodies of water have a surface layer a few millimeters thick, of much warmer water that strongly inhibits evaporation. If you can break up this thin layer, evaporation from the water skyrockets. While higher humidity by itself won’t cause rain inland, it makes it a lot easier to happen.
His idea was to construct floating wind turbines off the coast, that pumped and sprayed a mist of sea water into the air. As the cooler mist settled on the surface, it would break up the layer inhibiting evaporation and prevent its reformation.
By itself, the idea was sound. But it had an unexpected weakness, that he called “biologicals”. Basically all the sea life that clogged the intake pipes for the turbines.
No idea if he was able to come up with a way around the problem.
No idea if he was able to come up with a way around the problem.
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the field of materials research is so advanced these days that they should be able to come up with a material or surface that doesn’t allow organisms to collect on it.