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New development allows you to control lightning, cause rain and stop it, rt.com reports.
Pentagon sponsored researchers have created a very intense laser beam, which is an order of magnitude different from preexisting developments. Researchers say their opening can be used to cause rain or undo him, control lightning, but the potential for application a lot more.
A short intense laser pulse produces plasma on its the way. This plasma can interact with charged particles in thundercloud and change the weather, the rain begins to drizzle over request and there is the ability to control lightning. But send in clouds a constant laser beam has always been a problem because rays powerful enough to control the weather are scattered very fast.
A team of optical researchers from the University of Arizona and Universities of Central Florida have found a way around this let. They used a second lower intensity laser beam in the form of “clothes” for the first, as well as the source power for him. In the laboratory, this expanded the range. high-intensity beam from a few centimeters to several meters.
The potential of technology goes beyond our interaction with the atmosphere of the planet. It can be applied in areas such as remote sensing for spectroscopy allowing analyze chemical compounds over long distances, or set the direction of microwaves. US Department of Defense which gave the green light to a study of $ 7.5 million, of course, understood that it was worth the investment.
As for weather control, the team must find a way send a laser beam hundreds of meters into the sky and support it energy, the researchers say. Their report entitled “Outer optical fiber refueling, “was published in the journal Nature Photonics
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