I'm thinking about ways to cause wind for weather control. I thought of an orbiting or an cheap lightweight inflatable airship lens or mirror. This is also like spinning air. To bend heat waves it's been found that by spinning a disk of air of a few feet it becomes a lens that focuses the heat. This would be lightweight.. and cheap to put into orbit or in the airship and it focuses the heat down.. And this could create temperature gradients also known as wind, as on the on the leading edge of the cloud, you have more heat on one side that melts the ice crystals there. And this helps the gradient of cooling that moves the cloud on the other side of the front. Moving the cloud may have use as well as just inducing rain on the Leading Edge. One side has more heat and the other has more cooling and so they both tend to move the cloud at any rate if we choose a cloud of the optimal size.
One large cloud can weigh a million tons but we may be able to manage steam of more moderate size!
But also if an artificial tornado is used this can also send heat into the cloud to melt the ice crystals. And this will make the ice crystals start to sink and rain to start. The artificial tornado might be energized from the ground or from above with sinking air. Artificial tornadoes have been used to do things like extract the waste heat from power plants. Below these are created by fans and as the air rises it reaches the zone of downward flow and this primes the pump and then it forms a cooling tornado that goes down and reaches the ground with the reservoir to get the rain like in the desert.
We might make it so that even in the desert where if you have heat to melt the ice or cloud, they don't reach the ground or fizzle out because of high pressure because it causes removal of more clouds..But there are 4 ft of rain above us even above the desert and it's interesting how we might get the rain above to the thirsty cities and country of the West.
And so in the desert you've got kind of high pressure when the skies are not cloudy you all day, high pressure to sell some more songs by Steven Foster! Because this might work best for clouds that are low where it's not so hot as the desert I can imagine that we could extract the rain from clouds and adjacent areas and then pipe that rain water to the reservoirs in the desert.
I had thought of the large air filled lens inside the airship above the cloud.. this would send down the heating beam by focusing the light from the sun and that would melt the ice crystals in the cloud so they fall down. You have fans that swirl the air up and that would then connect to the area beneath the cloud where it's starting to rain. And that would pump the air back down and prime the rain..a sort of a siphon that siphons off the rain of the cloud provided the tornado is underneath it where you want it to rain.
I's possible that instead of a tornado and the lens, we might make a magnetic beam that's been solar powered charging it all night in the shade of the heat. The beam radiates down and this would make it so that it would spin a magnetic field into the cloud that itself would spiral. And that would also make the crystals melt and start to prime the pump. The flow of melted ice goes down to the bottom of the cloud and it primes that tornado at the bottom of the spiral. And so you've got a sort of all in one method of sending down the rain from the cloud simply by turning on a magnetic beam that spirals from an airship above the rain cloud.
A possible way to augment the power of this event might be by dropping crystals of silver cyanide from the airship into the spiral of the magnetic field and also down into the tornado.
Also, I note that I think it's possible that we might be able to make use of a recent discovery that lightning actually causes it to rain more by way of the shockwave.
So it's possible that we could control the lightning with lasers as they're doing from the ground with good way to guide it so it doesn't hit the building when it lands. But most of the lightning is between the clouds. So using lasers or particle beams might be useful to send lightning between the clouds. So lightning won't hit the ground and yet we can hopefully make it rain more at the time when you want rain the most. But this idea is that you could do this to make it so that in the desert, for example, we could have it where you might be able to prime it enough or make enough lightning to make it rain.
And also another possibility is to use propellers. I thought of using propellers to move the cloud where you want to move it to because it's been found that helicopter shock waves actually cause rain, by way of the sonic boom. So we could move helicopters on one side of the cloud and probably move it away while generating more cooling rain at the same time. Then it might rain where we would want it to rain.
