After The Artificial Sun, China Will Make A Weather Controller

JAKARTA - After developing a nuclear-based artificial sun as a new energy source, China is now planning to create a weather control program.

This program will have an area of more than 5.5 million square kilometers. This program is claimed to be able to control the weather to protect agricultural areas and ensure clear weather for important events in the Bamboo Curtain country.

Summarizing CNN International, Saturday, January 2, one of China's State Council said it would have a weather control system with the latest technology, this system can be used in 2025 if there is no obstacle. The program also did not escape the investment of the United States (US).

"China will have a weather modification system in 2025, thanks to breakthroughs and technological research," said the source.

Meanwhile, another source stated that the total area of artificial snowfall would reach more than 5.5 million square kilometers, and that the snow-stopping modification would have to exceed 580,000 square kilometers.

Quoted from a study funded by the US National Science Foundation, the concept of cloud seeding works by injecting small amounts of silver iodide into clouds that contain lots of moisture. Then it condenses around the particles that are formed and eventually falls as rain.

It should be noted, the success of this cloud seeding is very dependent on the atmosphere. Researchers also have difficulty distinguishing between artificial rain and natural rain.

But that uncertainty hasn't stopped China from investing in technology. The local news agency Xinhua reported that China had spent 1.34 billion US dollars on weather modification technology in 2012 to 2017.

Thanks to these weather modifications, last year China was able to reduce 70 percent of the damage from hail in the Xinjiang region, which is known as an agricultural region.