I recently learned that making man made clouds are a real thing that have been used to stave off droughts and that parts of China have been regularly using this tech. If so, can we use it to fight forest fires like the fires that have been so devastating in Australia? If not, why?
In: Chemistry
If anything this would be used to alleviate drought conditions and thereby prevent wildfires, not extinguish them, but the process is expensive and very controversial. While it was proven to work, it requires clouds over the targeted area. Plus, atmospheric conditions have to be just right, but even then the amount of precipitation is very low and is usually concentrated in small areas. This would likely have little to no effect on extinguishing the fires because it burns so hot that the precipitation would evaporate from the extreme heat rising up.
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