From giant curtains floating on the sea to fields of wind turbines, a team of scientists in Japan has a longshot plan to control disruptive storms
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From giant curtains floating on the sea to fields of wind turbines, a team of scientists in Japan has a longshot plan to control disruptive storms
by bloomberg
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*From Bloomberg News reporters Marika Katanuma and Dexter Low:*
In an effort to control future rainstorms, scientists in Japan are working on an ambitious government-backed project that aims to turn extreme weather into “a blessing.”
Besides giant curtains and wind turbines, Japan’s new project might also tap cloud seeding, a decades-old practice of shooting chemicals into clouds to induce rain.
The plan, though, has received mixed reactions in the scientific community.
An weather modification expert in Australia says that Japan’s effort is “incredibly ambitious” but it will also be “very difficult” to take techniques that appear to work in computer models and apply them in the real world.
Also, beyond technical challenges, Japan also faces an age-old moral dilemma: whether humans should have the power to play God with nature.