In the context of a catastrophe, it is not uncommon for people to find answers anywhere where they can find them. Destructive floods in Texas are not exempt.
There are many possible causes that have caused many people to die from growing waters, but one on which some people have settled is a process known as cloud seeding. They claim that the cloud is known as Beijing Startup Rainy maker The storm left much rainfall or else it rained more than that. However, data does not support their concerns.
It is true that the rain maker Was working A few days before the storm in the area, but despite the online chatter, “cloud seeding had nothing to do” with floods. Katja FrederickA Womeni scientist at Colorado Bolder University.
“This is just a complete conspiracy theory. Someone is looking for someone to be charged,” ChapterProfessor of Environmental Sciences at Illinois University told Tech Crunch.
The sowing of the cloud is nothing new. Rober said it was being practiced since the 1950s. It works by sprinkling small particles in the clouds, usually made of silver iodide.
Silver iodide particles imitate the shape of the ice crystal, so when they collide with the droplets of water-the water that remains liquid under the frozen point-they stimulate the droplets to freeze in the snow. Rober said that this gymnasium is important. Ice crystals grow faster than sharp cold water drops in size, which means that they are more likely to capture enough water vapor to fall out of the cloud. If they were to be very cold water, it is a good opportunity that they will eventually become vapors.
Only clouds that contain enough cold water are good candidates for cloud seeds.
In the United States, the west is mostly sown in the winter near the mountain ranges. There, there are clouds when the mountains push the air high, which causes it to cool down and reduce water vapors. If the seed is properly seed, such clouds will leave the water as ice, which is then captured as a snow pack, which causes a natural storage that charges artificial reserves behind the dams, during spring melting.
Although people have been wearing clouds for decades, its effect on rain is a new area of ​​study. “We really didn’t have technologies to evaluate it,” said Rober.
In early 2017, Frederick, Rober, and his colleagues have set up a shop in Adho to study a very detailed study of cloud seeding till date. On three occasions, they seed the clouds for two hours and ten minutes a total. It was enough to add about 186 million gallons of extra rain.
It may seem a lot, and for the Western states affected by the drought, it may make a difference. Ideo Power has planted many clouds in the winter to increase the amount of water collected behind its dams so that they can generate electricity throughout the year. “His data shows that this is cost -effective for them,” said Rober.
But compared to a major storm, 186 million gallons are peanuts. “When we talk about the big storm that has happened to the flood (in Texas), we are literally talking about trillions of water -watering water,” he said.
If the Rain Maker affected the storm, it was so negative that it would barely have a goal. But the fact is, that didn’t happen.
For those who started, the company was sowing nearly clouds a few days before the storm hit. “What happened two days before the area was higher than the area, maybe there was anywhere above Canada when the storm came,” Robar said.
Secondly, it is unclear whether cloud seeds are so effective in the clouds found in Texas in the summer. They are separated from the and the mountain clouds that are close to the mountain ranges, and they do not respond to the cloud of Beijing. For one, they are short -term and do not cause too much rainfall.
Rober said, cloud seeds can try to cope more of them, but “the amount of rainfall coming from these seeds clouds is small.”
Those who walk for a long time? “The clouds that are deep, such as thunderstorms, the natural processes are fine,” he said. “Those clouds are very effective. These clouds are going to do nothing.”