08-05-2009, 10:50 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Cloud-seeding using model rockets?
Hello All,
Has anyone here ever experimented with seeding clouds to produce rain using model rockets? (Polish meteorological scientists have successfully done this using modified maritime lifeline-carrying rockets.) If so, and if it produced positive results, what type and amount(s) of cloud-seeding agent (silver iodide crystals or dry ice) did you use?
Where I am in Alaska, we are breathing dangerously contaminated air due to smoke particulates from nearby wildfires. If I could trigger some kind of (hopefully self-increasing feedback loop) reaction to create rain, it would clear our air of smoke and help extinguish the fires. I have several potential launch sites that are free of combustible materials and dry vegetation, so that cloud-seeding rockets would not create new fires by accident.
Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
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