December 2, 2002
Rainmaking
Man has long dreamed of being able to make the deserts bloom by changing the weather, but some folks seem to have a neat and inexpensive way to do it: wind powered rotors out at sea that would spray out a fine mist of sea water, drastically raising the nearby evaporation rate.
Now if only someone will listen...
Posted by Perry E. Metzger at December 2, 2002 1:01 PM | TrackBackComments
Perry (and Patri, if he's reading this): at first blush, this would seem to render the Somalia option even more worthy of investigation.
It might be interesting to involve Israeli agronomists and hydrologists too, given what they did to make their deserts bloom...
Posted by: Russell Whitaker on December 2, 2002 1:26 PMJim Davidson's Awdal Roads Company is one logical candidate for such an effort; I wonder if he reads this blog...
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