India Trials Delhi Cloud Seeding To Clean Air in World's Most Polluted City (theguardian.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/24/1415248/india-trials-delhi-cloud-seeding-to-clean-air-in-worlds-most-polluted-city
- Source link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/24/india-trial-delhi-cloud-seeding-clean-air-world-polluted-city-bharatiya-janata-party
> The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has been proposing the use of cloud seeding as a way to bring Delhi's air pollution under control since it was elected to lead the regional government this year.
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> Cloud seeding involves using aircraft or drones to add to clouds particles of silver iodide, which have a structure similar to ice. Water droplets cluster around the particles, modifying the structure of the clouds and increasing the chance of precipitation. Months of unpredictable weather over India's capital had put the BJP's cloud-seeding plans on pause. But days after Delhi's air quality once again fell into the hazardous range after Diwali festival, and a thick brown haze settled over the city, the government said the scheme would finally be rolled out.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/24/india-trial-delhi-cloud-seeding-clean-air-world-polluted-city-bharatiya-janata-party
[2] https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/22/1818215/new-delhi-pollution-hits-five-year-high
Or, you know, just quit polluting... (Score:4)
...so damn much.
What is it with people who effectively think band aids can cure cancer... this species is doomed by its own idiocy.
Acid Rain? (Score:5, Insightful)
As someone who grew up in Southern California, I'm surprised this article didn't mention the risk of pulling down that ultra dense air pollution in bursts of abnormally acidic rain. The better option would be "pollute less".
Drainage (Score:2)
India is notorious for lack of basic sanitation infrastructure. Open/clogged drains .. lack of sewage systems. This rain will only increase their already hire morbidity levels. Morbidity is measure of how many people have illnesses such as diarrhea. A significant percentage of Indians don't fear germs and aren't even grossed out by food handlers touching their food. And no, they aren't immune to disease: [1]https://www.financialexpress.c... [financialexpress.com]
They really need intensive training that emphasize always using utensil
[1] https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/india-continues-to-record-high-child-mortality-rate-due-to-diarrhoea/698707/
Re: (Score:1)
Given that in some rural parts of the country people believe stuff like [1]this [wikipedia.org], it's not surprising awareness of importance of sanitation is so low.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_pregnancy_syndrome
Stop burning stuff! (Score:2)
I guess it's politically difficult to get people to stop burning stuff but treating the cause rather than trying to remediate the effects is usually a better approach.
Diwali firecrackers prompted the current crisis.
Burning fields intentionally rather than mulching the straw is a recurring cause of the crisis.
Also, the usual suspects... fossil fuel industry, transport.
"Delhi has been ranked as the world’s most polluted city for more than a decade. In 2024, pollution levels – caused by a deadly mi
And the Left laughs when they forbid this in Texas (Score:2)
Because it's one of the topics where the discussion turned completely black and white.
Chemtrail conspiracies are mostly nonsense. But weather control IS doable and real. It makes sense to regulate it, and not let some people and companies do what they want.