Hello Dan & Colleagues,
I have looked through the paper. Ithink that the technique could very well be
powerful in various respects.
However, its potential application to rainfall initiation seems to me highly
improbable. Rainfall production requires manyconditions to be met. A cloud has
to be
Regarding making clouds with lasers in a lab:
Three entries from my new book:
Fixing the Sky: The checkered history of weather and climate control
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14412-4/fixing-the-sky
236
³We are lords of every specimen of air which we can bottle up or imprison in
our lab
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100502/full/news.2010.213.html
Rain-making lasers could trigger showers on demand
Lasers that stimulate condensation may help to induce rain
artificially.
Zeeya Merali
Laser-assisted condensation / Make rain while the laser shines.J-P.
Wolf / University of Geneva
