Chinese Government Ramps Up Weather Control Efforts 139
formaggio writes "China's government is intervening with nature by rolling out four regional programs to artificially increase precipitation across the country by 10 percent before 2015. The program is anticipated to bring in an additional 230 billion cubic meters of precipitation per year by 2015. This is on top of the 50 billion cubic meters of precipitation China already artificially creates annually in the northeastern province of Jilin."
Evaporation (Score:5, Insightful)
Are they also creating an evaporation effect in the region that supplies air moisture to the region they're trying to create precipitation in?
I have to ask... (Score:4, Insightful)
STOP!! Do Not Continue (Score:5, Insightful)
Somehow I think this very fitting considering (1) this is China we're talking about and (2) anyone (including the US) who plays around weather is virtually certain to cause an adverse effect somewhere else. So please DO NOT TAMPER WITH THE WEATHER!!.
Thanks.
Re:I have to ask... (Score:5, Insightful)
I suppose the first question to ask would be where the moisture would've fallen otherwise. Unless they're creating new evaporation/condensation into clouds, which it doesn't sound like since they're discussing seeding rockets, they're just causing it to fall somewhere instead of somewhere else. Maybe that harms somewhere else, or maybe it doesn't; would need more information to say.
They appear not to get this, or not want to acknowledge it, though, with the quote: "Because clouds are boundless, weather control is boundless". Clouds might be boundless if you're doing isolated cloud-seeding operations, but on a massive industrial scale, clouds aren't really boundless...
Re:soory (Score:4, Insightful)
wasn't it "structure captured, new construction options"?