Interesting Intelligent Article on Cloud Seeding/Weather Modification

[Jay Reynolds]

I thought this one was fairly well written and has some depth.

http://www.onearth.org/articles/201...ound-wacko-but-could-it-save-us-from-droughts

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Silver-Lining Playbook
Scorned for years as the stuff of science fiction, cloud seeding could be a surprising new weapon in the fight against worsening droughts.
by Ginger Strand @GingerStrand • September 11, 2013
Any time he wants, Arlen Huggins can find out if he’s making it snow in Colorado. From his desk in a spacious, sunny office in Reno, Nevada, Huggins can pull up a screen on his computer and look at charts tracking relative humidity, temperature, wind direction, and wind speed at the Winter Park ski area, about an hour and a half west of Denver. The charts also show him the flow rate and flame temperature for a silver iodide generator perched near the resort’s 12,000-foot summit. He can control the generator from his desk. Its purpose is to build better clouds.

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