Artificial rain: this is the method that uses drones and electrical discharges in the clouds

A team of university students has managed to create a method to create artificial rain, that is, rain that has not been generated naturally through the well-known water cycle. And they have achieved this using drones.

This team belongs to the Universities of Reading and Bath, in the United Kingdom. Since 2021 they have been testing drones in so-called cloud banks, and the result has been published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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How does it work? The Xataka website explains that with this method you can help the fog to form drops of water by applying electrical discharges.

Giles Harrison, coordinator of the study, has indicated that it is possible to “retard evaporation, or even, and this always surprises me, make the drops explode because the electrical force on them exceeds the surface tension that holds them together”.

This new option can work in dry areas and where it is necessary to “help” the clouds to release the rain they contain. It can be beneficial even in times of drought.

Source: Elcomercio

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