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It is known that in the Middle East, the heat that has exceeded the human limit for a long time will continue due to a rise in temperature, and there are many places where people will become uninhabitable by 2050. The United Arab Emirates came up with a unique countermeasure. Drones are used to artificially make rain.
If you think about it, mankind has been trying to make it rain since ancient times. Instead of offering rituals and dances, it is now a different style of rain and rain that relies on technology. In a video posted on Instagram by the Arab Weather Channel, it rains violently, which is an experiment using a drone to make it rain.
A cloud is a collection of small water droplets, but each droplet is so small that it does not fall to the ground as rain. This project is to let these unmanned drones fly in the sky and release electric charges to make small water droplets collide with each other and make it rain as large water droplets. In hot regions like the United Arab Emirates, even raindrops that fall are small enough to evaporate before reaching the ground. So, this drone charging system could not only cause rain, but also magnify the raindrops to a size large enough to penetrate the desert lands and raise the water table.
A research team from the University of Reading, UK, who is working on this project, repeatedly modeled a prototype, tested it in a hot air balloon, and started testing it with a drone this year. In addition to focusing on artificial rainfall, not only the United Arab Emirates, but also Korea, China, Thailand, and Indonesia, etc., are implementing artificial rainfall projects according to regional weather conditions.
The United Arab Emirates already has very little rainfall and the per capita water consumption rate is the highest in the world. According to government data, 42% of domestic water is desalted, which means high energy costs. Artificial rain can be said to be an essential rain system in modern times. It can be a small response to climate change, which is becoming serious enough that we have no choice but to cling to the Messiah of technology.
Artificial rain using drones can be helpful, but of course, if you look at the big picture, it boils down to global warming. If carbon emissions are not controlled at this rate, it is known that the temperature will rise by 2.4 degrees Celsius by 2050, and desertification will not be stopped. This means that just making it rain with drones is not a fundamental solution.
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