Is cloud busting possible?

Question

Write about your views/experiences...

Answer 1

I THINK CLOUD IS MADE UP OF FOG. SO IT CAN'T BURST

Answer 2

i just do a raindance

Answer 3

cloud seeding has been done for years now

Answer 4

there's an article about Orgone energy,and the experiments

that had been carried,it is very interesting,some how one of

the experiments looks in certain way as a

remote viewing technique(one of many)and the results were

good

Answer 5

If you mean taking a needle and poking a cloud to make it rain, then no. Its possible. Increase the air moisture by 550%, and it will rain quite soon

Answer 6

If by "cloudbusting" you mean the concept of building a machine that is capable of affecting the weather - then theoretically, yes, it is possible.

The weather on planet Earth is just a giant system of various atmospheric condition influenced by factors too numerous to count.

The refrigerator in your kitchen is basically a self contained little weather system.  The dehumidifier or air-conditioner, same thing.

It's all a matter of scale, necessary equipment, and the resources needed to get the job done.

Answer 7

You are refering to cloud seeding....

The most common chemicals used for cloud seeding include silver iodide and dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide). The expansion of liquid propane into a gas is being used on a smaller scale. The use of hygroscopic materials, such as salt, is increasing in popularity because of some promising research results.

Seeding of clouds requires that they contain supercooled liquid water--that is, liquid water colder than zero degrees Celsius. Introduction of a substance such as silver iodide, which has a crystalline structure similar to that of ice, will induce freezing (heterogeneous nucleation). Dry ice or propane expansion cools the air to such an extent that ice crystals can nucleate spontaneously from the vapor phase. Unlike seeding with silver iodide, this spontaneous nucleation does not require any existing droplets or particles because it produces extremely high vapor supersaturations near the seeding substance. However, the existing droplets are needed for the ice crystals to grow into large enough particles to precipitate out.

In mid-latitude clouds, the usual seeding strategy has been predicated upon the fact that the equilibrium vapor pressure is lower over water than over ice. When ice particles form in supercooled clouds, this fact allows the ice particles to grow at the expense of liquid droplets. If there is sufficient growth, the particles become heavy enough to fall as snow (or, if melting occurs, rain) from clouds that otherwise would produce no precipitation. This process is known as "static" seeding.

Seeding of warm-season or tropical cumuliform (convective) clouds seeks to exploit the latent heat released by freezing. This strategy of "dynamic" seeding assumes that the additional latent heat adds buoyancy, strengthens updrafts, ensures more low-level convergence, and ultimately causes rapid growth of properly selected clouds.

Cloud seeding chemicals may be dispersed by aircraft or by dispersion devices located on the ground (generators). For release by aircraft, silver iodide flares are ignited and dispersed as an aircraft flies through a cloud. When released by devices on the ground, the fine particles are downwind and upwards by air currents after release.

The largest seeding experiments are conducted in China. Which believes that it increases the amount of rain over several increasingly arid regions, including its capital city, Beijing, by firing silver iodide rockets into the sky where rain is desired. There is even political strife caused by neighboring regions which accuse each other of "stealing rain" using cloud seeding. About 24 countries currently practice weather modification operationally.