Company claims cloud-seeding breakthrough could help the parched West
The Washington Post • • business
Key Points:
- Rainmaker has announced it is the first U.S. commercial cloud-seeding operation to demonstrate it has successfully generated additional water, aiming to combat drought conditions in Utah and Idaho.
- Cloud seeding, which involves shooting particles like silver iodide into clouds to stimulate precipitation, has been practiced since the 1940s.
- Despite laboratory evidence supporting cloud seeding, there has been skepticism about its effectiveness in producing measurable precipitation in real-world environments.
- Western states have continued using cloud seeding for decades as a strategy to alleviate severe droughts, despite ongoing scientific debate about its impact.
