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Jan 03, 2011 17:50

Abu Dhabi Scientists Create Desert Rainstorms

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palsmarties January 4 2011, 03:09:31 UTC

Wow.
This sounds pretty awesome.

novamae January 4 2011, 03:11:30 UTC

it's like the future!

palsmarties January 4 2011, 03:37:59 UTC

Dome worlds on the moon will happen! =D

novamae January 4 2011, 03:51:32 UTC

yaa! i was just watching star trek and they commented about how we colonized mars in 2103. i scoffed, but felt optimistic-ish.

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pyaar_ishq January 4 2011, 03:13:46 UTC

I wonder if the giant ionizer produces ozone. When i was looking up home air filters to see if they really work, I thought i saw that the ionizers produce ozone thus are bad.

kyra_neko_rei January 4 2011, 06:57:29 UTC

I thought ozone was good? Weren't they panicking a decade or two ago because the ozone layer had a hole in it and OMG solar radiation will get through and cause cancer?

parhelion_spark January 4 2011, 08:06:53 UTC

Ozone is good for the ozone layer, but kind of terrible for breathing.

gundamtsubasa January 4 2011, 10:08:44 UTC

Ozone also makes for a really good disinfectant in water treatment and also works far better at removing taste and odor than activated carbon.

/no joke, I'm typing this from an ozone building at a water treatment plant.

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haruhiko January 4 2011, 03:28:10 UTC

Oh good, geoengineering.

frostycakes January 4 2011, 04:20:37 UTC

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this just fancy cloud seeding? I know they did this in CO on a regular basis when I was growing up, and it's got a long history according to Wiki...

romp January 4 2011, 05:05:23 UTC

Hmm, I don't know. If they didn't grab that water, where would it have gone?

If they can figure out how and where to use this so they prevent deadly flooding, excellent. But they need to be sure they're not just moving the desert climate next door. I'm reminded of how someone will go crazy with a well, sell the water as fast as they can pump it out,...with little thought to how that affects the neighbours.

Access to water is an issue with some freaky wrong steps already taken. I don't want to see rain going to whomever can best afford to make it.

jugglingeggs January 4 2011, 17:11:10 UTC

I don't want to see rain going to whomever can best afford to make it.

This honestly is what worries me a lot about this. If companies/countries start marketing rain, I'm just going to assume the world is about to end. :/