23
Oct
I don’t know how much physics this post has, but I found it interesting!
Mayor Yry Luzhkov, of Moscow, is promising that the citizens of his city will have a snow free winter.
CLOUD SEEDING:
This weather modification technique use air crafts to spray the clouds with silver iodine and dry ice, which alters the path of the precipitation. Although it may seem expensive, the cost of the project would save far more money then if snow plows and salts would need to be dispatched throughout the city.
IN THE UNITED STATES:
- 2/3 of the states have laws against cloud seeding.
- Cloud seeding is used on ski lifts to produce more snow.
- Cloud seeding is also used to limit the effects of fog in larger cities.
tags: weather
October 25th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
The thought of altering nature makes me uncomfortable. For the most part, nature dictates our lives, and I think I think disturbing nature’s true course may lead us down a path we are not ready for at this point. On the other hand, living under Wisconsin’s bias, I really like the thought of less snow, more sunshine. Although, this so called ‘cloud seeding’ may not produce the best of results.
October 26th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Am I right in interpreting this as the snow would still fall, just not in the city? That would be helpful in preventing accidents in the city and would save money in snow plowing, but what would happen to the places where the snow is redirected? It is more difficult to plow in the countryside, which is why most school cancellations occur in small county towns such as Hortonville. Therefore, I believe that this snow seeding would lead to more problems then it would solve.
October 26th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Cloud seeding is an interesting topic. You can prevent it from raining but that rain or snow hast to go somewere. Since your cloud seeding to prevent snow from getting to you all the precipatation needs to be out of the air before it gets to you.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Cloud seeding is probably one of the closest things we currently have to a sci-fi weather control system. However, the chemicals involved likely have a deleterious effect on the environment. In addition, weather patterns can sometimes have unpredictable reactions, so when altering weather patterns artificially there is a relatively significant potential to accidentally create a disastrous scenario, such as a tornado, torrential rains, etc.
October 31st, 2009 at 6:16 pm
I think this is a cool idea if there is an event such as when china did this so it wouldn’t rain for the olympics, but if we do this for every little storm that came our way I think that we could have huge environmental problems with disrupting the weather patterns.
We would need tough regulations on who can get/make silver iodine because this can also be used to make it snow in cities and if a city such as Chicago gets four feet of snow in a weekend that can’t be good. I could see people getting mad the Bears lost like they always do because they suck and throwing silver iodine in their propane grills to make it snow there like crazy.
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:53 am
I have heard of this before. It sounds cool to me but I would also be cautious on possible other effects to our enviornment. It is cool that people can figure out how to make or prevent precipetation but I’m not sure if it should be in use all the time. What is Silver iodine and what does it actually do to make it snow?
November 6th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Cloud seeding? What? Interesting but very wierd! I agree with “Bill Nye” completely. It too makes me uncomfortable. Doing this may have other consequences later. Cloud seeding, to me, relates to global warming. When cars and huge factories were built, the producers and creaters did not think of global warming as a consequence. Yes the automobile was a good invention but it has it bad effects. I feel if cloud seeding becomes a habit in the world that the world will be faced with another crisis and will not know how to handle it. it may be great now but did they ever think about the long run?