May 5, 2024
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Who Said That?
Florida's quote of the day
"Ultimately, you could artificially control the rain and lightning over a large expanse with such ideas."
-- Matthew Mills, a graduate student in the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers
The adage “Everyone complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it,” may one day be obsolete if researchers at the University of Central Florida’s College of Optics & Photonics and the University of Arizona further develop a new technique to aim a high-energy laser beam into clouds to make it rain or trigger lightning.
The solution? Surround the beam with a second beam to act as an energy reservoir, sustaining the central beam to greater distances than previously possible.
Read more at UCF Today.
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