iStockphoto/Herianus Your WIRED daily briefing. Today, China is setting up hundreds of silver iodide burners to increase rainfall in Tibet, Facebook reports $12 billion in quarterly revenue, Finland isn’t scrapping its universal basic income experiment and more.
China has begun construction of a network of cloud-seeding chambers high on the mountains of Tibet, with the intention of increasing rainfall to the region by an estimated 10 billion cubic metres per year ( Gizmodo ). 500 of the chambers have been built, burning solid fuel to produce silver iodide particles, which cause clouds to form around them when swept into the […]
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