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
There has to be sufficient moisture in the atmosphere for cloud seeding to work – e.g. there have to be rainclouds that just need a little coaxing to release their moisture as rain.
In the case of most serious forest fires they occur during the dry season where there are no clouds, or where the clouds are not sufficiently “wet” to be seeded with productive results.
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