What are your thoughts on the work of Ionogenics, ATLANT, WeatherTec, and Aquiess?
http://rezn8d.com/wxmod/cloud-ionization.html On Friday, December 7, 2012 12:37:26 PM UTC-5, JohnLatham wrote: > > Hello Andrew, > > The conditions inside a Wilson cloud chamber are very different from > in the atmosphere.The supersaturations are immense, because all natural > CCN have been removed.Only then can Xrays initiate droplets. These > conditions dont exist in nature. > > What is most needed for natural cloud formation is an unstable temperature > structure > and a mechanism for inducing sustained upward motion of moist air.There > are > virtually always CCN available, on which droplets will form. > > Artificial cloud production is essentially a non-starter in my view. > > What can be done is to increase the CCN and therefore droplet number > concentration and cloud albedo in existing clouds. . This is the principle > of > cloud brightening. > > Not creating clouds, but brightening existing ones! > > All Best, John. > > > > John Latham > Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 > Email: lat...@ucar.edu <javascript:> or > john.l...@manchester.ac.uk<javascript:> > Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 > or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK) 01928-730-002 > http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/people/latham > ________________________________________ > From: Andrew Lockley [andrew....@gmail.com <javascript:>] > Sent: 07 December 2012 03:35 > To: Stephen Salter; John Latham; Alan Gadain; geoengineering > Subject: X ray cloud seeding? > > Cloud chambers detect ionising radiation because the ions act as cloud > condensation nuclei. > > Could high energy and intense x-rays be used to trigger cloud formation in > the marine boundary layer? This might also work for drying the upper > troposphere - by triggered nucleation and subsequent rain out, using low > intensity, high energy x rays. > > A > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/geoengineering/-/L4EnM6hBVkoJ. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
