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The Electric Sky - Holes - 1

In The Electric Sky
How to Make, or Suppress Rainfall
The following is an excerpt from http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/apr04/0404nele.html
in which Russian atmospheric scientists are selling and installing
atmospheric ionizers in northern Mexico to relieve their parched
farmlands.The article above but with an informational
critique inserted which in my opinion balances and adds needed
depth and a more complete understanding to the story. http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=9eq6g3aj…But some atmospheric scientists
aren’t so sure the Russians aren’t selling snake oil. “[Ionization]
is highly unconventional and in my realm of experience, I
have seen no concrete evidence published in a refereed journal,
nor have I seen sufficient credible eyewitness verification
that the technology works as touted,” says George Bomar, the
meteorologist charged by the Texas government with licensing
the state’s weather modification projects.Comment: This is the common phenomenon of
cognitive dissonance in science. The Russians are performing
a weather experiment which should fail according to accepted
theory. So the scientist complains that he has seen no concrete
evidence published in a refereed journal. But the complaint
reduces to a matter of belief. Scientists do not believe electrical
power is input to weather systems. Referees who believe atmospheric
electricity is an effect, rather than a cause of weather,
would almost certainly find grounds for rejecting funding
for, or publication of, such an experiment. The same applies
to the publication of reports from credible eyewitnesses.
For decades airline pilots witnessed strange lightning above
storms but were discouraged from reporting it. The objection
is unfair and unscientific. Advances come from challenging
established beliefs.Ionization technology is called either IOLA (ionization of
the local atmosphere) by Earthwise or ELAT (electrification
of the atmosphere) by the company ELAT. IOLA and ELAT compete
with conventional cloud seeding, which though it also remains
scientifically unproven, is used in more than 24 countries
and 10 U.S. states. Cloud seeding usually involves dispersing
a chemical agent such as silver iodide into cloud formations,
which helps ice crystals form, leading, it is thought, to
bigger clouds and more precipitation than without seeding.
The ionization approach, according to Bissiachi, now ELAT’s
vice president of R&D and operations, does a similar job
but twice over. Ions attract water in the atmosphere, creating
the aerosol that produces clouds, and they also charge the
dust already in the air, making particles become more attractive
nuclei for water droplets, which coalesce and fall to the
ground as rain.Comment: It seems that the basic problem
in gaining acceptance for ionization technology is the facile
description of what causes rain. And that is a problem inherited
from the experts the meteorologists and atmospheric scientists.
The water molecule
is fascinating because, unlike the nitrogen and oxygen
molecules in the air, it is electrically polarized.
The oxygen (blue) side of the water molecule is more negative
than the hydrogen side (red), forming an electric dipole.In an electric field, the water molecule will rotate to line
up with the field. When it condenses in a cloud the average
electric dipole moment of a water molecule in a raindrop is
40 percent greater than that of a single water vapor molecule.
This enhancement results from the large polarization caused
by the electric field induced by surrounding water molecules.
In the atmospheric electric field the water molecules will
be aligned with their dipoles pointing vertically and in a
sense that is determined by the charge polarization in the
cloud. It is interesting to note that the tops of storm clouds
are positively charged and the base is negative. That is the
reverse of the radial charge polarization within the Earth
itself. And it is this charge polarization that gives rise
to the low-order attractive force we call gravity.
So it is proposed that water droplets in clouds experience an
antigravity effect. It appears to be related to the Biefield-Brown
Effect, where a charged high-voltage planar capacitor tends
to move in the direction of the positive electrode. That effect
may explain how millions of tons of water can be suspended
kilometers above the ground, when cloud droplets are about
1,000 times denser than the surrounding air.Of course, this raises the issue of charge separation in clouds.
The conventional isolated Earth view is that positive and
negative charge is somehow separated by vertical winds in
clouds and that this process in thunderstorms is responsible
for charging up the ionosphere and causing the atmospheric
electric field. But this begs the question of cause and effect.
Recent high-altitude balloon flights find that charge is not
built up in the cloud, it already exists in the ionosphere
above. In January 2002 I argued the electric
universe model: Thunderstorms are not electricity generators,
they are passive elements in an interplanetary circuit, like
a self-repairing leaky condenser. The energy stored in the
cloud “condenser” is released as lightning when it short-circuits.
The short-circuits can occur either within the cloud or across
the external resistive paths to Earth or the ionosphere. The
charge across the cloud “condenser” gives rise to violent
vertical electrical winds within the cloud, not vice versa.This view accords with a recent report (17 November 2003)
in Geophysical Review Letters by Joseph Dwyer of the Florida
Institute of Technology, which says that according to conventional
theory electrical fields in the atmosphere simply cannot grow
large enough to trigger lightning. The conventional
view of how lightning is produced is wrong. And so the
true origin of lightning remains a mystery.Water vapor in rising air cools and condenses to forms clouds.
The conventional explanation for rising air relies upon solar
heating. The electrical weather model has an additional galactic
energy source (the same that powers the Sun) to drive the
movement of air. It is the same energy source that drives
ferocious high-level winds on the giant outer planets, where
solar energy is extremely weak. Once the water vapor condenses
into water droplets it is more plausible that millions of
tons of water can remain suspended kilometers above the earth
by electrical means, rather than by thermal updraughts. The
clouds would act to reduce thermals…Please take the time to read the entire enlightening
article.As ionization technology can be used to increase rainfall
underneath these ion rainmakers; the opposite must also be
true. Holes in the clouds, where holes would not otherwise
be, are direct evidence that scalar technology can deliver
these negative ionic bursts into storms reducing their ability
to make rain or even the ability of a cloud to provide shade
on a hot summer afternoon. These effects can lead to
the decrease of severe storm intensity, changes of a hurricanes
strength through wind field intensity disruption, and suppression
of snow and rain formation in an extratropical storm, the
kind most frequently found in the mid latitudes. Through
this page, and the several to follow, are pictures of these
holes, holes of negative ion bursts used to thin cloud cover,
rain out available moisture in the atmosphere. I am
sure many of you have seen those before and have wondered
what causes these unusual shapes in the sky.Many of these images have been sent to me
since I did the Art Bell show on January 30th; some pictures
were sent with time and location, many others without.
To those that took the time to take and then sent the pictures
of weather events that caught their eye go my deepest gratitude.
Keep on keeping on! Together we can win this war of bad science
and silence.
The Oregon Cascades off in the distance. Note the rippling and all the holes in the fairly thin overcast.
Symmetry very frequently accompanies this kind of weather modification. Where one hole can be found a compliment
(hole or bulge) will be near by.
Looking at the same view but tilted a little higher in the sky. Rippling remains present, as do the
holes in the overcast, or what should have been overcast. Remnants of past contrail flights appear to have seeded the
upper troposphere for the formation of the cirrus that is seen in the upper left hand of the image. There is also
some square edges to the cloud field upper center and to the upper right.A busy sky with the overhang of this house providing shade from the sunshine. The rippling is generated
from a couple of different energy deposit points as evidence of the variety of distances and directions that the rippling
has travel.A large hole overhead at top center with another at right center where it appears that at least three different
wave forms have been initiated.
Several rippling frequencies displayed in this patch of clouds, with clear skies surrounding this activity.

Early evening twilight when this image was taken so the clouds are blocking light from the background
atmospheric sky glow. Rippling is again present as is our hole in the center to the upper right hand portion of
the image.A late summer morning sky after hours of contrail fights seeding the sky so high clouds readily form.
A nice hole appears in the midst of this convoluted grouping of clouds.At least four, possibly six, separate rippling zones which all begin at faint holes in the cloud cover.
These are points where sections of the atmosphere are nudged in directions and at velocities that would not occur naturally.
Sometimes the rippling isn’t easy to spot, but the holes still are. Cirrus clouds display a greater
density on the edge of these holes; they also form at 90 degree angles to each other. Note the clouds at the bottom
of the image running horizontally and then vertically mid and upper center.A deck of altocumulus clouds with obvious striping/griddling organization. Cloud density is much
thicker on the right hand side as an obvious squared boundary in these summer 2004 Vancouver Island clouds.



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