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People are upset about the rising costs of beef, complaining endlessly.
What did they expect to happen after the country had been dismantled piece by piece for over seventy years? 1/7
They sold our farmland to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The land has been poisoned. The imposed regulations have destroyed our food supply. Ranchers and farmers are losing their land due to harmful policies.2/7
They destroyed our meat-packing facilities, so what we produce here is shipped overseas, packaged, and then shipped back to sell.
Our supply chains were purposely broken. 3/7
They culled chickens and cattle due to a disease that did not affect the broods or herds. Our grains, fruits, and vegetables have been poisoned, as have our water sources. 4/7
Instead of blaming the tyrants who have turned our country into a hellhole for decades, some find it easier to point fingers at the man who risks everything to save it, attributing problems to tariffs when the real issues are in supply and demand. 5/7
I understand their frustration with the current situation, but it won't be resolved in six months, especially since it has taken decades to reach this point. 6/7
This is what happens when empires prioritize personal enrichment and power over the well-being of their citizens. Unfortunately, conditions are likely to worsen before they improve. 7/7
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Oct 6, 2024
Cloud seeding is a form of weather modification that involves dispersing substances into the air to change the amount or type of precipitation. Here's how it generally works:
Seeding Agents: The most common substances used for cloud seeding are silver iodide, dry ice (solid carbon dioxide), and liquid propane. These agents act as nuclei around which moisture can condense or freeze, forming ice crystals that can then grow and fall as rain or snow.
Delivery Methods:
Aircraft: Planes fly over clouds and release the seeding agents.
Ground-Based Generators: These are used in mountainous areas where upslope winds carry the seeding agents into the clouds.
Rocket and Artillery: In some places, rockets or artillery shells filled with seeding agents are fired into the clouds.
Purpose:
Increasing Precipitation: To enhance rainfall or snowfall in drought-affected areas.
Preventing Hail: By encouraging smaller hail to form instead of larger, damaging hailstones.
Reducing Fog: At airports, for instance, to improve visibility.
Effectiveness: The effectiveness of cloud seeding is still debated:
Scientific Studies: Some studies suggest increases in precipitation by up to 10-15%, but results can be inconsistent.
Challenges: It's difficult to isolate the effects of cloud seeding from natural weather variability.
Environmental Concerns: There are concerns about the environmental impact, particularly regarding the use of silver iodide. However, the amounts used are generally considered safe, and silver concentrations remain below harmful levels.
Legal and Ethical Considerations: There are also legal issues, especially when clouds move across borders, potentially affecting neighboring regions without their consent.
Hail Suppression: Similar to cloud seeding but aimed at reducing the size of hailstones by dispersing materials into clouds to promote the formation of more but smaller ice particles, which reduces the impact of hail on crops and property.
Fog Dispersal: This involves seeding fog with hygroscopic materials or using heat to evaporate it, often at airports to improve visibility for safer takeoffs and landings.
Storm Modification: Techniques like hurricane modification have been theoretically discussed, involving the idea of seeding the outer rainbands of hurricanes to weaken them. Project Stormfury was an example, though its success has been debated.
Space-based Solutions:
Solar Radiation Management (SRM): Proposals include injecting aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space, thereby cooling Earth. This is highly controversial due to potential unforeseen climate feedbacks.
Space Mirrors: Reflective surfaces in space to redirect sunlight, either to cool specific regions or as a global cooling strategy.
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC): While primarily for energy generation, it could potentially alter local weather patterns by changing the temperature gradient in the ocean's layers.
Desalination and Water Vapor Enhancement: Techniques that involve increasing atmospheric moisture by evaporating seawater in arid regions, potentially leading to increased rainfall.
Geoengineering Proposals:
Ocean Fertilization: Adding nutrients like iron to the ocean to promote algal blooms, which absorb CO2. This could affect weather by altering ocean-atmosphere heat exchange but has significant environmental risks.
Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR): Techniques like afforestation or enhanced weathering aim to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, which indirectly could affect global weather patterns over long terms.
Electrical Ionization: Some theories suggest that by using electrical charges, either from the ground or via balloons or drones, one could manipulate the electrical properties of clouds to encourage or discourage precipitation.
Cloud Brightening (Marine Cloud Brightening): Involves spraying seawater into the air to increase the reflectivity of clouds, which could help cool regions by reflecting more sunlight back into space.
Weather Warfare: Historical and speculative methods where techniques like cloud seeding might be used in conflict scenarios to cause flooding or drought in enemy territories, though this is regulated by international treaties like the ENMOD Convention.
Weather modification technology, particularly through methods like cloud seeding, has been the subject of numerous patents over the years, reflecting ongoing efforts to control or influence weather patterns for various purposes. Here's an overview based on historical data and general knowledge up to 2024:

Patents:
Historical Patents: The concept of weather modification dates back to the late 19th century. For instance, there's a patent from 1891 (US462795A) titled "Method of Producing Rain-Fall" by Charles Mallory Hatfield, who claimed he could create rain using evaporation techniques.
Modern Patents: More recent patents often deal with sophisticated methods like:
Cloud Seeding Techniques: Patents for different chemicals and delivery systems (like silver iodide or dry ice) for inducing precipitation.
Satellite-Based Systems: Proposals for using satellites to reflect solar energy or alter atmospheric conditions, like the concept of the Satellite Weather Modification System (SWMS) which theoretically could use satellites to focus solar energy to modify weather patterns.
Control Systems: Patents related to autonomous systems for weather modification, where AI and machine learning play roles in deciding where and when to seed clouds based on real-time data.
Hail Suppression: Techniques aimed at reducing hail damage through cloud seeding, which has its own set of specialized patents.
Companies:
Weather Modification, Inc.: Often cited as one of the pioneering companies in the field, specializing in cloud seeding operations for increasing precipitation or suppressing hail.

Other Entities: While specific names might not always be public due to the niche nature of the work, various research institutions, governmental bodies, and private companies have engaged in or funded weather modification research. For instance, projects like those in Abu Dhabi's artificial rainstorms or historical operations like Project Stormfury (aimed at hurricane modification by the U.S. government) indicate involvement by or partnerships with companies or research bodies, though specifics on which companies hold what patents might not always be easily accessible or widely advertised.
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