Thursday, March 27, 2008

Engineering the Olympic weather


The Technology Review of MIT gives a nice overview of the methods China wants to use during the Beijing Olympics to guarantee that the birds nest remains dry. It does not guarantee success, but at least it can stop a drizzle.
Unsurprisingly, therefore, China's national weather-engineering program is also the world's largest, with approximately 1,500 weather modification professionals directing 30 aircraft and their crews, as well as 37,000 part-time workers--mostly peasant farmers--who are on call to blast away at clouds with 7,113 anti-aircraft guns and 4,991 rocket launchers.
(h/t Danwei)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

China's experiment last winter was a great success. It demonstrated that the Chinese scientists can control the weather fully. Now all they have to do is to work on the timing.

hoong said...

MORE man-made air pollutions? I am just wondering aloud without any scientific proof of course.

Perhaps certain degree of contributions towards global warming (consider the plans flying, the manufacturing of ammunitions, fuel etc)?

So what do we really solve? Rain no rain? Smog no smog?

Cindy