A cloud-seeding startup did not cause the Texas floods

After a disaster, it is not uncommon to seek answers where people can find. The destructive floods in Texas are no exception.

Many people have a lot of killing as a result of rapid rising waters, but a person who is located in some people is an experience known as a cloud seed. A cloud known as a cloud pretend to be the beginning Rainy The storm has caused more rain in another way. However, the data does not return their concerns.

Rainmaker is true He did the operation A few days before the storm in this area, “said the” no connection of the cloud seed, “he said. Katja FriedrichA atmospheric scientist at Colorado Boulder University.

“It’s just a full conspiracy theory. Someone is looking for someone to blame” Bob RauberThe University of Illinois was told by a professor of the atmospheric sciences Techcrunch.

Cloud seeds are nothing new. It has been applied since the 1950s, Rauber. Small particles usually work in the clouds made of silver silver.

Silver Idodid particles imitate the shape of ice crystals, so when the fluid is left on super chilled water drops – the flooding of water makes it ice. It is important to freeze, Rauber said. Ice crystals grow faster than super cooled water droplets, that is, it can take enough water vapor to be large enough to fall out of the cloud. If they stayed like super cooled water, they eventually have a good chance of evaporating.

Only the clouds with sufficiently super chopped juice are a good candidate for cloud seeds.

In the United States, the most cloud seeds occur in the winter, near the mountain ranges in the west. There, the clouds, mountains push the air higher, causing a cool and water vapor to condensate. Proper tissues, this water will leave a part like a snow, then the captive, formed a captive, natural reservoir, which forms a natural reservoir, fills artificial reservoirs behind the dams.

People are a new field of education for many years and the effects of rain. “We did not have technologies to evaluate it until recently,” Rauber said.

In early 2017, Friedrich, Rauber and colleagues, so far established a shop in Aysaho to perform one of the most detailed studies of cloud seeds. Three times, for only two hours and 10 minutes of clouds. It was enough to add about 186 million gallons of additional rainfall.

It may seem like a lot and can make a change for the Western countries for the drought. Idaho Power seeds, many clouds along the winter, many clouds to increase the amount of water collected behind the dams to produce the year-round electricity. “Their information shows that they show that they are effective for them,” Ruber said.

However, compared to a large storm, 186 million gallons are peanuts. “When he speaks of flooding from that giant storm [in Texas]We are talking to the water water that processes the trillions of the atmosphere, “he said.

If Rainmaker affects the storm, it was so minuskullu that it would not be a rounding error. But that’s the reality.

For beginners, the company planted nearby clouds a few days before the storm. “The weather in which this region was two days ago was probably in Canada,” said Ruber as soon as the storm was formed.

Second, it is not clear whether the cloud seeds are effective in the cumulus clouds in Texas in the summer. They differ from orographic clouds near the mountain rows and do not respond the same according to cloud seeds. For one, they tend to be inclined to short time and are too rainless.

Cloudy seeds can try to grow more than them anyway, but “These seeds are smaller than the clouds,” Rauber said.

Those who last enough? “Clouds, such as deep, thunderstorms, are just beautiful,” he said. “That clouds are very effective. It is not going to do anything to plant these clouds.”