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According to the Dubai-based publication Arabian Business, the UAE is in the early stages of evaluating how a man-made mountain could help maximize rainfall in the country, consulting with experts from the U.S.-based National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to study the idea. “What we are looking at is basically evaluating the effects on weather through the type of mountain, how high it should be and how the slopes should be,” Roelof Bruintjes of NCAR told Arabian Business. “We will have a report of the first phase this summer as an initial step.”
Why not continue the project, which began in July 2010 and has been successful in creating rain storms in the Dubai and Abu Dhabi desert? Creating more rainfall through artificially seeded clouds might be cheaper and more efficient. It could help to clear away lingering billows of air pollution.
China creates 55 billion tons of artificial rain a year - and it plans to quintuple that. The US, by comparison, spends around $15 million a year. It now creates 50 billion tonnes (55 billion tons) of artificial rain a year. That compares with an average of 36 billion tonnes a year (40 billion tons) from 1999 to 2006.
But UE might decide to go the eco way, since seeding might cause temporary incapacitation or possible residual injury to humans and animals. However those minute amounts of silver generated by cloud seeding, are about 1% of industry emissions into the atmosphere in many parts of the world, or individual exposure from tooth fillings, and claims of negative environmental impact are disputed by peer-reviewed research as summarized by the international Weather Modification Association.
I think it'd be in their best interest to not even bother. I feel it'd disrupt the climate somewhere else in one way or another, but then again the region is sparsely populated so it might not even matter.
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Originally Posted by elnina
Why not continue the project, which began in July 2010 and has been successful in creating rain storms in the Dubai and Abu Dhabi desert? Creating more rainfall through artificially seeded clouds might be cheaper and more efficient. It could help to clear away lingering billows of air pollution.
China creates 55 billion tons of artificial rain a year - and it plans to quintuple that. The The US, by comparison, spends around $15 million a year. It now creates 50 billion tonnes (55 billion tons) of artificial rain a year. That compares with an average of 36 billion tonnes a year (40 billion tons) from 1999 to 2006.
But UE might decide to go the eco way, since seeding might cause temporary incapacitation or possible residual injury to humans and animals. However those minute amounts of silver generated by cloud seeding, are about 1% of industry emissions into the atmosphere in many parts of the world, or individual exposure from tooth fillings, and claims of negative environmental impact are disputed by peer-reviewed research as summarized by the international Weather Modification Association.
I didn't know they (UAE) did cloud seeding, and that it was as popular (and as harmful) as it is. Building a mountain just seems like a big waste of time and resources, especially with the Persian Gulf sitting right there. Desalination plants? Canals? Underground irrigation? Sounds cheaper than building a mountain, and more eco friendly than cloud seeding.
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Originally Posted by grega94
Doesn't the UAE already have mountains in the northeast of the country, and they don't seem to be much wetter then the lowlands.
That would be an epic fail if they actually built the mountain and it did nothing for them.
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Originally Posted by Ethereal
These guys want to build everything...Lol
I know lol. What would their mountain(s) even be made out of?
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Low level moisture, PWV, winds, ect
