17.Feb.2007 at 10:30 pm | hso
The Real Rainmaker
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Thought this was cool, according to BBC:
Tanzania has been given permission to import rain-making technology from the king of Thailand, Thai media report.
The patented cloud-seeding technique involves aircraft releasing a chemical into clouds to induce rainfall.
How it works?
- Aircraft or artillery spray chemicals (often silver iodide or dry ice) into clouds to encourage tiny vapour droplets to coalesce
- Droplets of supercooled water (liquid below 0C) coalesce into snow and melt as they fall
- Heat released as the droplets freeze boosts updrafts, which pull more moist air into the cloud
I am pretty sure this has been around for a while, had not see it mentioned in the news for a long while though!





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