GB2467010A

GB2467010A - Apparatus for making electrostatic rain clouds

Info

Publication number: GB2467010A
Application number: GB0900905A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Malcolm Ian Truman
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2009-01-20
Filing date: 2009-01-20
Publication date: 2010-07-21
Also published as: GB0900905D0

Abstract

Apparatus for making rain clouds comprises spraying charged water vapour into the atmosphere. The water vapour is charged by means of passing high pressure water through an anode2(or cathode) and then through an electromagnet4, and then through a cathode6(or anode). The water is then discharged through nozzle5. Apparatus maybe attached to a solid base or to a rig, vessel or vehicle. The machine may make alternate negative and positively charged rain clouds which may then be seeded by conventional seeding methods or by super or ultra sound. The apparatus may be powered by renewable energy means.

Description

Electrostatic Rain Cloud Machine This invention relates to rain making equipment and cloud seeding and electrostatic liquid spray equipment and Kelvin's Law which explains how water droplets are influenced by electricity.

An object of this invention is to provide the means to produce large quantities of atomized electrostatic water vapor which is propelled into the atmosphere at programmed intervals via high pressure water pumps and electrical devices to create man made energized electrostatic clouds which can be conventionally cloud seeded by chemicals or by super sound or ultra sound as mentioned in the claims of this invention.

An example of energized water droplets is found in literature covering Kelvin's Law in which water droplets become positively and negatively charged due to the influence of an electrical charge. However Kelvin's Law shows relatively large water droplets falling downwards whereas in this invention the water droplets are minute and are propelled upwards into the sky in vast quantities so as to create statically charged rain clouds which may travel inland on prevailing winds and can be cloud seeded when required to produce rainfall.

Conventional ways of creating rainfall exist such as cloud seeding to increase the chance of rain over a particular land mass. However too successfully cause rain by cloud seeding there must first be sufficient water vapor in the area of sky being cloud seeded. This invention solves the problem of insufficient atmospheric water vapor and shows how to produce man-made statically charged vapor clouds and achieve greater success with cloud seeding attempts producing predictable rainfall as a result.

In the invention water is passed at high pressure through a non metallic tube coupled to a metallic tube which is connected to a positive or negative current to become a cathode or an anode. The high pressure water then passes through powerful electromagnets to excite its molecules; the pressurized excited water then passes through atomizing spray nozzle and immerges as a tine mist. This fine mist then passes through positive or negatively charged metal plates after which the fine mist becomes electro statically charged. The amount of static produced in the fine mist is controllable by variation of the current provided by a source of electricity.

The statically fine mist produced is sprayed into the sky so as to emerge above the earth's natural vapor barrier where it will evaporate forming air born charged vapor clouds charged suitable for cloud seeding at a point along its windswept journey.

Example: The above invention is built into a tower on a rig and sited off the coast of Australia.

The wind direction is inland and X miles inland there is drought. The weather conditions at the installation site are favorable and the invention is powered up and begins creation of charged vapor clouds. These clouds are allowed to travel inland to desirable locations where aircraft or ground based systems are used to cloud seed the volatile electro statically charged rain clouds 2.

which are susceptible to cloud seeding methods. The said clouds may also be seeded or induced to condense into rain from a space station.

An alternative method of condensing man made electro statically charged clouds created by this invention is by flying or aiming organ type super sound flutes tuned to super low frequency inside and around the man made clouds to vibrate the charged molecules condensing the water vapor which then falls as rain; this method is listed in the CLAIMS and forms part of this invention.

The invention may be controlled by meteorological weather station computers which analyze prevailing weather conditions prior to powering up so that energy is not wasted or clouds created when not required or when conditions are not favorable.

The invention can draw on any filtered water source such as from the sea a river or lake or underground natural reservoir. The object being to use the sky and wind and the man made clouds to transport the water to drought regions and open up new areas of arable land for farming and real estate. For example many parts of Australia could be opened up because central Australia has an up draft of hot air forcing winds to blow inland from most coastal regions.

The invention may have the ability to vary the amount of electro statically charged water vapor which in turn may regulate the density and mass of the man made clouds to calculate how high and far inland these clouds may travel so that successful cloud seeding can be arranged more accurately before the man made electrostatic clouds were uplifted and disbursed into the upper atmosphere.

The cost of building and running the electrostatic rain cloud machines could be calculated by a formula where the value of created arable useful land is divided by the cost of the machines once a test machine had been created and is working. In the case of Australia these Rain Machines may prove worthwhile at any cost.

The embodiments of the invention will now be shown by reference to the accompanying drawing on page 3 in which FIG 1. Shows a vertical metal tube or hose connected to an electrical source so as to act as cathode or anode. Coupled to the bottom of the vertical metal tube 1 is 2 which is a non metallic insulated tube or hose connected to 3 which is a high pressure filtered water source. Surrounding the metal tube I is 4 which is one or more electromagnets. At the top of the metal tube I is 5 which is one or more atomizing spray nozzles. Above the atomizing spray nozzles 5 is 6 which is one or more circular bands of metal or metal plates connected to an electrical source so as to act as cathodes or anodes. The items I to 6 may be fitted to a tower or framework which is mounted on a solid base or on a vessel or on a rig or on a vehicle for the purpose of creating controllable electrostatic rain clouds. The items I to 6 may be powered by electricity generated from wave or tidal or wind or solar or fuel or atmospheric pressure engines.

Claims

Claims I. An electrostatic rain cloud machine in which cathodes and anodes are used to positively and negatively charge water vapor.
2. An electrostatic rain cloud machine in which electro magnets are used to excite water molecules.
3. An electrostatic rain cloud machine in which spray nozzles are used to spray atomized electrostatic water into the sky.
4. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which uses high pressure water pumps.
5. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which produces vapor clouds suitable for conventional cloud seeding.
6. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which is cloud seeded via super sound or ultra sound tuned to extreme levels and fitted to or towed by aircraft or aimed from vehicles or vessels.
7. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which produces negatively charged or positively charged vapor clouds.
8. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which is controlled by computers and weather stations.
9. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which is fitted to a tower or frame mounted on a rig or a vessel or a vehicle or a solid base.
10. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which is powered by electricity.
ii. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which is powered by renewable energy such as wave or tidal or solar or wind energy.
12. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which produces man made electro statically charged rain clouds at prearranged times.
13. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which can be controlled by remotely.
14. An electrostatic rain cloud with its own computerized weather station.
15. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which produces volatile rain clouds.
16. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which produces separate alternate negatively charged or positively charged clouds of water vapor.
17. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which can vary the amount of electrostatic energy within each cloud produced.
18. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which can intermittently create separate negatively charged water vapor clouds or separate negatively charged water vapor clouds.
19. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which produces clouds of calculable mass and density.
20. An electrostatic rain cloud machine which creates rain clouds which travel inland on prevailing winds.
21. An electrostatic rain cloud machine producing electrostatic rain clouds which can be condensed to produce rain drops by bombarding such clouds with super sound or ultra sound or a combination of both.