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Wyo's cloud-seeding gamble
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| Contributor | CBlock941 |
| Last Edited | CBlock941 Jan 23, 2007 12:29pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Casper Star Tribune |
| News Date | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Weather modification has come a long way since the Dust Bowl days when charming hucksters, like Burt Lancaster’s "Bill Starbuck" in the 1956 movie “The Rainmaker,” conned desperate farmers with a few fancy fireworks and a mishmash of science and faith.
Since those days, there have been growing advances in weather modification -- and a growing number of small-scale, short-term experiments that have shown that cloud-seeding can make a difference.
Today, something much more scientific and long range is under way in Wyoming's Medicine Bow, Sierra Madre, and Wind River mountain ranges. A scientific consortium is using $8.8 million and a five-year project to definitively prove that cloud seeding can build up the snowpack reservoirs in Wyoming’s mountains -- the source of most surface water used by irrigators, industry and municipalities. |
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