Dubai: heavy rains from drones

According to the Daily Mail, the UAE National Meteorology Center (NCM) is using drones equipped with electric charge emitting instruments that provide an electric charge to air molecules, which generally encourage precipitation.

NCM has produced "monsoon-like showers across the country" with drones to discourage the stifling heat of 50 degrees celsius. The footage shows Dubai hit by torrential rain produced by cloud insemination technology.

The country already uses cloud seeding technology, such as dropping salts and other chemicals into clouds to stimulate rainfall.

The latest drone cloud seeding operations are part of a $ 15 million program that is already producing rain in the country, which is one of the driest in the world. The country has a lot of clouds, so triggering thunderstorms with electric charges via drones shouldn't be a problem. Not all clouds will trigger, but seeding "increases the amount of rain between five and 70 percent," the Daily Mail said.

Rain caused by cloud seeding is much cheaper than desalinated water, which currently supplies about 42% of the country's water, at the cost of a large waste of energy.

Cloud seeding via drones has enormous potential and shows that water can be drawn from the sky. This technology could be useful for North and South America, where massive droughts impact water supplies and damage crops.

The problem that arises with the use of artificial rains in desert areas is that the soil is not suitable for the absorption of intense water flows, with the risk of creating devastating floods. However, if you want to see the intensity of the rains caused you can see this video.

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