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Let It Rain: China Reportedly Building Weather-Control System Larger Than Spain

© Flickr / Joe HastingsChina has unveiled new plans to extend a high speed railway line to connect to Nepal via Tibet that would tunnel under Mount Everest - and creep into India's sphere of influence.
China has unveiled new plans to extend a high speed railway line to connect to Nepal via Tibet that would tunnel under Mount Everest - and creep into India's sphere of influence. - Sputnik International
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The project involves installing tens of thousands of fuel-burning chambers high on the Tibetan mountains which will release particles into the atmosphere to allow massive clouds to form.

China is building a low-cost rain making system to attract more rain to its Tibetan plateau. The country is the first in the world to attempt such a large-scale application of the technology.

“The chambers burn solid fuel to produce silver iodide, a cloud-seeding agent with a crystalline structure much like ice,” South China Morning Post reported.

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This project could increase rainfall by up to 10 billion cubic meters annually, which is about 7 percent of China’s total water consumption.

The chambers will be built over a total area of around 1.6 million square kilometers (620,000 square miles), which is some three times the size of Spain. 

“[So far,] more than 500 burners have been deployed on alpine slopes in Tibet, Xinjiang and other areas for experimental use. The data we have collected show very promising results,” a researcher working on the system told the South China Morning Post. 

The system is being developed by the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

 

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