Need rain? Geoengineering technique uses high energy laser beam to prompt rain and lightning

04/18/2014 - 00:00


By Gene Kruckemyer -

The adage “Everyone complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it,” may one day be obsolete if researchers at the University of Central Florida’s College of Optics & Photonics and the University of Arizona further develop a new technique to aim a high-energy laser beam into clouds to make it rain or trigger lightning.

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