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Cloud seeding is a reality - it has been practiced for
over 50 years and is currently applied in over 40 countries. Effectiveness has
been demonstrated in several carefully conducted scientific experiments. It is our mission to apply and adapt the
lessons from such science to your unique situation, so you can achieve more
precipitation routinely and predictably.
By so doing, you can increase precious water supplies for various needs,
such as:
- Agriculture (irrigation)
- Hydroelectric power
- Municipal and industrial use
- Recreation (e.g., boating, snow skiing)
- Aquatic habitat for fish and wildlife
Precipitation enhancement can be achieved with
negligible environmental and health impacts and at much lower costs compared to other, infrastructure-intense water
augmentation methods such as dams, trans-basin diversions, groundwater banking and
desalination. For example, desalination plants in the USA cost over 30 times
that of cloud seeding projects to produce the same amount of water.
Our
focus is on the design, deployment, and independent evaluation of
winter cloud seeding programs for snowpack augmentation. Using
the latest scientific knowledge, we can guide you in the setup of your
program for maximum water augmentation. Or, if you are already
operating a program, we can rigorously and scientifically evaluate its
current effectiveness and methods to improve it. Our emphasis
is on accountability and use of the latest technologies.
Do you need more evidence of effectiveness? The latest policy statements of the following
respected professional scientific organizations say the following about
winter weather modification by cloud seeding:
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"Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves"
- Richard Feynman
There is statistical evidence that precipitation from supercooled orographic clouds (clouds
that develop over mountains) has been seasonally increased by about 10%. American Meteorological Society (1998).
In
our present state of knowledge, it is considered that the glaciogenic
seeding of clouds formed by air flowing over mountains offers the best
prospects for increasing precipitation in an economically-viable
manner. These types of clouds attracted great interest in their
modification because of their potential in terms of water management,
i.e. the possibility of storing water in reservoirs or in the snowpack
at higher elevations. There is statistical evidence that, under certain
conditions, precipitation from supercooled orographic clouds can be
increased with existing techniques. Statistical analyses ofsurface
precipitation records from some long-term projects indicate that
seasonal increases have been realized. World Meteorological Organization (2001).
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