From: ChemE Stewart
I wonder if it is a combination of both, microwaves interacting with the atmosphere/water vapor and or a discharge into the Earth interacting with the underground water. This is possible. and worth pursuing, especially if grant money is available. but microwaves would not penetrate very far into the earth, and shale is deep. There are three different ecosystems which need to be analyzed. Surprised you did not mention dark matter, and the Mills identification of this species with fractional hydrogen, which he claims is produced in the solar corona. It is carried to earth in the solar wind. If RF radiation from Doppler radar is involved somehow, and it seems to be more than coincidental, based on limited data - then RF could interact with the atmosphere to nucleate more of the dark-matter arriving from the solar corona into rain, which then percolates with water down to the shale layer. This could alter the normal random distribution of f/H. This process would take several years - but there does seem to be several years of lag time. Have you compared areas with 1) Radar and no shale deposits against 2) areas with both shale and radar and areas with 3) shale only ? If there was enough data to compare all three, you might make a statistical case. Of course, that could require a staff of researchers to put this kind of data together.