Today's card is Cloud Seeding (#004):
Automated card (Green) | Base game
Cost: 11 | Requirements: 3 ocean tiles | Tags: None
Decrease your MC production 1 step and any heat production 1 step. Increase your plant production 2 steps.
I saw this on VHS about 20 years ago, so it's at least that old. All I can remember is that there was a drought through much of the film, and near the end, the male & female lead characters fly into the sky on a chinese style dragon, and throw some dust into the clouds causing rain, and ending the drought
The visuals have been playing in my mind for YEARS and I just need to see it again
Mods before deleting this like last year, please consider the info is vital to avoid a million questions when this winter kicks in.
If it doesn't rain this winter again, it's due to the absence of clouds, not shortage of money for cloud seeding.
Watch this video to understand how cloud seeding works, it is not as expensive as it was years ago too.
TLDR :
No Clouds = No Rain + No Cloud Seeding
Clouds = Chances of rain + Cloud Seeding = Higher chances of rain
Thanks
A very long time ago I read a short story, or maybe a novel, but probably a short story, about global warming inadvertently caused by seeding clouds with chlorophyll to increase crop production.
I almost certainly read it in high school, that is, before the mid-1970s, but it could have been written 10 or 15 years before that. It was the first time I had encountered the idea of human-caused climate change.
It was written in English. I was reading a lot of short story anthologies, Greatest Science Fiction Stories of 19nn sort of titles, at the time, so it might have been in one of them.
The story made an impact, and I'd like to reread it, but a Google search has not turned it up. If someone out there knows the story I'm talking about, I'd be very grateful.
I have read that story several times and I know it comes from the Kate Brown's book, but I would like to be 100 % sure about its authenticity. What do you guys think about it, and do you know other solid sources about this story ?https://geeky.news/chernobyl-rainmakers-contaminated-belarus-for-a-long-time/
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I live in California which has been suffering from drought for years. While I was traveling up the coast I started to wonder if there were a way to just evaporate some of that water in the Pacific so that moisture could carry over to the land. The North Pacific Jet Stream travels over the ocean and eastward over California. If you added more moisture to the wind, could you viably transport a greater amount of water inland?
I feel like there would be multiple ways to boil the water using geothermal, nuclear, solar heat capture, or even reflecting heat down to a facility from space. Generating a regulated plum of evaporated water into the jet stream. Cloud seeding can help decide where and when that water drops to some degree. I imagine whatever facility that would be set up to do this would isolate the water to avoid harming sea life, Possibly heat insulated from the surrounding water.
Outside of dealing with the California drought, I also wonder if something like this can be used to generate more could cover and snowfall over the arctic. Both reflecting heat and recovering ice mass.
This is a total daydream from a layperson, but I was wondering if there could be a chance something like this could work or if others have thought about this before. I have no idea how much water you would have to evaporate to make a difference, how much energy it would take, how to avoid harming sea life, what repercussions it would have down the line, or how much something effective would cost. I feel its worthy of some kurzgesagt type speculation at least.
TLDR: What if we evaporated the ocean to deal with the repurcussions of climate change?
We are testing Azure File Shares with Cloud tiering and I have a question/clarification on the seeding part of the process. This would be a single server environment where we want to store all the data in cool storage in Azure and keep recent files on prem.
Reading this document: Deploy Azure File Sync | Microsoft Docs
In the onboarding section it basically has two options:
- Onboarding with a new file share(s) on prem (ie seed from original share, then download metadata to new share and tier per policy so only files we want come back down)
- Onboarding with existing file share(s) on prem
It warns about data changes during the initial seed only in option 2, but I'm confused as to why option 1 would be fine with data changes during the initial seed.
Has anyone performed this before with an in place share?
Thanks!
