SP w4 Cloud Seeding

Making rain means the ability to artificially drop rain somewhere. Rain dances and processions to evoke rain are still in use as age-old traditions in some countries, but the effect has never been proven.

In the thirties of the twentieth century, the Dutchman August Willem Veraart (1881-1947) was the first to do tests to generate rain. Veraart was able to use air force aircraft in the summer and autumn 1930 from which a mixture of ice and carbon dioxide snow was sprinkled on the clouds. His test of 6 October 1930 is particularly famous. From 3 planes, 1800 kilos of ice and carbon dioxide snow were thrown into large rain clouds. Within 24 hours, tens of millimeters of rain came down in the west of the Netherlands. Afterwards it turned out that the rain probably had nothing to do with the tests and would otherwise have fallen.

During the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, large amounts of crystal silver iodide were added to the clouds. Seven thousand anti-aircraft guns were used. The result is that the small water droplets from the cloud attach themselves to the silver iodide and that it can start to rain. This speeds up the rain process so that it can remain dry for a while. That way you can influence the weather. It is a very polluting technique for the environment, as every photographer can come up with. This chemical rain making technique is called cloud seeding and is also used in other places, such as Russia, for large events In Spain, Italy and France, missiles containing crystals of silver iodide are fired in some cases from clouds containing hail onions. The hail is getting smaller. The goal is to prevent damage to the grapes and orange harvest. In the case of large forest fires in Indonesia, they try to generate rain to help extinguish. However, the fires are often so large that the effect is only minimal. Around 2000, American researchers announced a new method for making rain. For this, a mix of sodium and potassium chlorides is used that is sprayed into the clouds from an airplane so that it can start to regulate.

I can't imagine that playing for "god" will work out well in the long run. Certainly not if the goal is to avoid minor short-term weather problems at, for example, an event.

Scientists have already proposed to build fleets of massive, unmanned ships to sow clouds above the Earth's oceans to provide a cooling against carbon dioxide-induced global warming. The first tests have already been done in 3 places in the world where cooling, in those places, has been proven. They shoot salt water up. That is better then the chimicals used before.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/meteorologists/cloud-seeding.htm

https://www.greenoptimistic.com/marine-cloud-brightening-shooting-saltwater-at-the-sky-to-reduce-warming-20120822/