The new gods of weather can make rain on demand—or so they want you to believe ~ Amazing News 2020

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The New Gods of Weather Can Make Rain on Demand—or So They Want You to Believe

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In a gold-trimmed command center on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, scientists are seeking to wring moisture from desert skies. But will all their extravagant cloud-seeding tech—planes that sprinkle nanomaterials, lasers that scramble the atmosphere—really work at scale?

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