Out of the Blue DARPA Seeks Means to Manipulate Lightening

December 21, 2009

China and Russia try to control rain clouds and the Dutch use technology to keep low-lying inland areas from flooding, so why shouldn’t the United States be able to manipulate lightning? In an attempt to better understand one of nature’s most powerful processes, DARPA issued a broad agency announcement yesterday asking for ideas on how to best protect American personnel and resources from dangers and costs associated with lightning strikes. To wit:


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Lightning Mother Nature has it. DARPA wants it.

Lightning causes more than $1B/year in direct damages to property in addition to the loss of lives, disruption of activities (for example, postponement of satellite launches) and their corresponding costs. A better understanding of the physics underlying lightning discharge, associated emissions, and related processes (for example, tribocharging in the clouds) may lead to revolutionary advances in the state of the art of lightning protection

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Think they are already modifing and controlling the weather, "HAARP" and have for sometime.

Great. They will spend 10 billions dollars on developing a project that will cost 2 billion dollars a year to run for a problem that costs us 1 billion a year.