Likely a silly question, but: why don’t we use cloud seeding to fight forest fires?
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At first I thought “oh, I guess silver iodide is probably a pretty bad pollutant” but it doesn’t seem to be? Maybe the more important problem is that it appears not to work very reliably.
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I asked myself this a couple of years ago and found articles like this. “So the problem with the clouds is they have drops in them that have no chance to reach the ground” denver.cbslocal.com/2012/06/26/clo
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Water desalinization costs continue to drop. I think it is feasible to build a National Irrigation Grid, an effort like the interstate highway system, to ensure no area in US undergoes drought.
Also maybe turn Libya/Egypt and Australian Outback into rain forests.