543results about "Weather influencing devices" patented technology

A method and apparatus for sequestering CO₂ using algae comprises a plurality of vertically suspended bioreactors, each bioreactor being translucent and including a flow channel formed by a plurality of baffles. A culture tank contains a suspension of water and at least one algae and includes a plurality of gas jets for introducing a CO₂-containing gas into the suspension. The culture tank is in fluid communication with an inlet in each channel for flowing the suspension through the channel in the presence of light. A pump pumps the suspension into the channel inlet.

An irrigation control system for land comprising: (a) at least one meter to measure one or more wheather conditions in a first area; (b) at least one monitor to (i) examine rainfall data derived from a radar scanning at least the first area according to predetermined criteria and (ii) to extract data which is representative of the scanned rainfall in a sub-area of the first area; (c) a store to store the extracted data; and (d) a controller connected directly or indirectly to the meter and the monitor and to the store, to calculate a moisture content value for the sub-area and a predetermined moisture content value for the sub-area, and to regulate the irrigation in a sub-area.

A self-sufficient material property profile regulation method and system, for adjusting fluid property profiles such as in an ocean of multiple property layers, is described. Using this Fluid Property Regulator, the property profiles of a non-enclosed material, including property profiles related to material density, chemical characteristics and space-time position, are affected due to motion of the material relative to a body in the flow stream. The state of other matter with which the initial material then makes direct or indirect contact is also affected. For example, in the case of a liquid such as an ocean current, the temperature, salinity, nutrient content and other properties may be destratified (i.e. layers being combined) as the system lifts large quantities of deep water and combines this material with surface water in the downstream far-field region of the system. The resulting regulation of such ocean water property profiles may then also indirectly affect the properties of the atmosphere above the ocean so that the system can be said to affect planetary properties both oceanic and atmospheric. Rather than merely discharging a pumped material, such as cold water that might quickly re-submerge, the system regulates lasting property profiles. The new Fluid Property Regulator system described in this invention regulates material properties to produce desired outcomes such as increased food and energy production as well as to prevent undesirable outcomes such as hurricanes, elevated planetary temperatures, decreased planetary ice sheet size, raised sea level and glacial freshwater incursions that can halt important major currents.

A marine water conversion apparatus capable of pumping ocean surface water several hundred feel below the surface to cause sufficient cooler water to rise to the surface to prevent formation of or to moderate hurricanes. The apparatus is remotely controlled and includes a propulsion system for moving it to a new location or in predetermined patterns through use of a global positioning system and computerized controls. Power for driving the pumps may be provided by a wind turbine driven electric generator at the upper end of an upper tube section pivotally connected to a float tank on a vertical axis.

A variety of devices capable of bringing ocean water from a considerable depth to the surface using airlift systems. A bubble of air released in the ocean will rise to the surface. If a gas diffuser is employed to release millions of bubbles of air, the rising cloud of bubbles will entrain the surrounding water and pull it toward the surface.

The invention relates to a flow or semi-flow sand dune recover method, which comprises that: 1, based on condition and soil parameter, selecting working area; 2, via the grass mode, selecting plant kind; 3, planting seeds into working area, the first year grass and arbuscle are mixed sprayed into face of sand dune, arbor is sprayed at the bottom; 4, spraying lignin water solution at the face of working area, said lignin is crosslinker of lignin, urea-aldehyde and lignin, with solidifier. The lignin is modified into hydroxymethyl/hydroxyethylation lignin. The invention has low cost and better effect.

The invention discloses a time detonating fuse of an antiaircraft gun hail-suppression precipitation increasing bomb. The time detonating fuse comprises a fuse body (1), a hood (2), a firing mechanism (3), a medicament tray time-delay mechanism (4), a ball rotor safe and arming mechanism (5) and a detonating primer (6), wherein the hood (2) covers the front end of the fuse body (1), the firing mechanism (3), the medicament tray time-delay mechanism (4), the ball rotor safe and arming mechanism (5) and the detonating primer (6) are arranged in the cavity of the fuse body (1), the firing mechanism (3) is located on the front part of the fuse body (1), the medicament tray time-delay mechanism (4) which has a time-delay function is located between the firing mechanism (3) and the ball rotor safe and arming mechanism (5), the front end of the detonating primer (6) is connected with the ball rotor safe and arming mechanism (5), and the back end of the detonating primer (6) is used as the output end of the fuse and is used for detonating a charged projectile containing the silver iodide grain. The time detonating fuse of the antiaircraft gun hail-suppression precipitation increasing bomb has the advantages of high reliability and good safety.

The invention discloses an intelligent artificial rainfall simulator which comprises a circulating water supply system, an intelligent controller, a computer and software system, a distributed spraying rainfall device, a movable telescopic test frame and a wind-proof structure. An upper spray pipe, a lower spray pipe and sprayers are combined to form the distributed spraying rainfall device, the diameter of the upper spray pipe is different from that of the lower spray pipe, the diameters of the sprayers correspond to those of spray nozzles, the wind-proof structure is arranged below the rainfall device, can be fixed on the inner side of the test frame and prepared from polymer in a formula I, Mw of the high-molecular polymer is 5.115*104, and a molecular weight distribution index is 1.761.

A method for hurricane prevention by cooling the surface of the ocean water in the path of a tropical cyclone. This method is achieved by displacing the warmer surface water with the cooler water below it. The method involves using a surface vessel, such as a ship, in a region of open water to dissipate or weaken tropical cyclones by positioning the surface vessel in a path of travel of a tropical cyclone. The surface vessel is equipped with a redistribution device to collect warm surface water as the surface vessel is propelled through open water, and the warm water is diverted beneath its natural stratification level and replaced with cooler water along the surface of the open water.

Methods and systems are described for the abatement of hurricanes and other atmospheric disturbances. The methods and systems comprise the delivery of various coolants in either their liquid, gaseous, or solid states and applying such coolants to energy feeding regions of the atmospheric disturbance identified by analytical modeling. The coolants are both cryogenic and non cryogenic. In addition to cooling, the cryogenic coolants create wind-sheer and large frozen objects in mesoscale model identified updrafts of an atmospheric disturbance from high altitudes down to sea level. All coolants bring about the abatement of the hurricane by the dehydration of the moisture laden air, the disruption of the stability of the hurricane winds, and the preemption of work by the hurricane's heat engine prior to land fall.

The invention relates to a method, a system, apparatus, and software to be used for the method for the determination of the environmental impact of the production of cultivation plants and for increasing or maximizing a positive environmental impact. In the method, production parameters for cultivation are selected and cultivation procedures are performed, crop yieldhus produced is harvested, and a representative sample of the crop yield is delivered to reception analysis with the appendant information for the analysis of energy and carbon dioxide factors. An environmental impact index reflecting the environmental impact of the production of said cultivation plant is determined on the basis of this data and the appendant information. The index thus provided is utilized for the production of cultivation plants in an environmentally friendlier manner.

The invention relates to a multielement seeding combustion explosion type rainfall-increasing and anti-hail rocket. In the rocket, one end of a safety system (2) is connected with a flame bullet seeding catalyst system (1), the other end is connected with the front end of a solid motor (3); the back end of the motor (3) sticks to an empennage; four catalyst seeding holes are evenly distributed in the middle part of a nozzle (5), a plurality of flame bullets (12) are sleeved together to be arranged in a shell (15), safety fuses (16) are arranged in the centre bores of the flame bullets (12), a propelling medicine (13) is filled to one end of each flame bullet (12); a cladding medicine block(9) is filled in the threaded connection section capsule of the shell (15), an ignition medicine package (8) is arranged in the counter bore of the cladding medicine block(9), and the ignition wire of the ignition medicine package passes through the centre bore of the nozzle (5). The invention adopts the flame bullet burning mode that catalyst is burnt and seeded continuously and a plurality of flame bullets are thrown along the parent trajectory, for seeding the catalyst, thus requiring that the flame bullets are thrown reliably and the burning is stable. The flame bullets of the invention adopt casting moulding for structure design, the technology is easy and stable, and the flame bullets are easy for the batch production.

A system and method for misbalancing or suppressing spinning atmospheric phenomena such as tornadoes, landspouts, waterspouts, gustnadoes and whirlwinds. The systems and methods misbalance or suppress such phenomena utilizing electromagnetic fields; irradiation; neutralizing charges; or chemical reactions, thus destabilizing or disrupting the phenomenon.

At least one method for indicating a weather condition includes indexing a storm based on two or more parameters. One of the parameters is a travel speed of the storm and a second parameter is a location of the storm. The method further includes providing a time before the storm impacts a recipient based on the travel speed of the storm and a track distance to the recipient location. The method further includes delivering the time before the storm impacts the location to the recipient.

A system for affecting a local parameter, the system comprising a sunlight radiation reflecting surface, and a propulsion mechanism, the propulsion mechanism being adapted to move the reflecting surface to a predetermined position being chosen based on the effect of the system on said local parameter at the position.

The nano composite catalyst is prepared with silver iodide, magnesium, aluminum, copper iodide, sliver iodate or other superfine particle, combustible component, adhesive, curing agent, plasticizer, cross-linking agent, anti-aging agent, speed regulator, etc. and through kneading, deairing and curing. In combustion or explosion, the nano composite catalyst produces composite AgI-NaCl-AgCl-KCl-CuI-NH4I kernels, which possess great specific surface area, high activity, and structure and crystal lattice constant similar to those of ice crystal. The catalyst has high kernel forming rate, fast kernel forming speed, excellent physical and chemical performance, less environmental pollution and easy maintenance and transportation, and is safe and efficient composite catalyst for rain making, preventing hail, eliminating cloud, and other weather modifications.

An elongated pipe conduit snow making tower, and assembly method, having an upper end spray nozzle head and pivotally supported on a support pipe for vertical inclination by a hydraulic ram jack enabling infinite non-preselected incremental inclinations. A ram safety latch automatically latch/catches the tower pipe if the jack leaks. Secondary and tertiary external flexible water hoses are selectable to feed associated spray head snowmaking nozzles, and an internal compressed air conduit feeds spray head seeding nozzles. Secondary and tertiary ball valve assemblies mounted on a water feed block are outlet coupled to their respective hoses. In drain condition turbulent primary water continually washes against a valve ball flow closure side for an anti-freezing effect. The spray head is a four-piece modular planar stack up of disks each carrying spray nozzles that all discharge forwardly away from the pipe tower in generally parallel spray patterns.

A system for use in inducing rainfall is provided. The system includes an aircraft configured to travel through an ambient environment at a first temperature, and a precipitation system coupled to the aircraft. The precipitation system is configured to form a particle from a substance in the ambient environment, and is configured to discharge the particle at a second temperature lower than the first temperature such that moisture in the air condenses on the particle.

Described here are compositions, methods and apparatus for biological and physical geoengineering. A vertical spar buoy or spar buoy network is provided. The buoys or array of buoys are designed to resist wave motion while supporting an analytical platform at a depth such that particulate flux of fixed carbon is indicative of sequestration in the ocean's depths for one hundred years or more. Sedimentary deadfall through the 100-Year Horizon is measured to validate the flux of fixed carbon. Issuance of validated carbon sequestration certificates and monetization and trading of those certificates are described. Also provided are compositions and methods for increasing bioactive surface area and nutrient levels so as to promote carbon sequestration. Regeneration of carbon dioxide in the mesopelagic water column is reduced by providing complex habitat in the photic zone, thus ensuring higher complexity of trophic levels and sedimentary deadfall having larger particulate size.

The invention relates to a method for continuously drawing humid and hot air on the ground according to the chimney effect by utilizing a chimney type air guide tower so that the humid and hot air rapidly floats to break the up-and-down convection of the humid and hot air and dry and cold air by the greenhouse effect and achieve the aims of controlling ground air temperature and humidity, reducing carbon dioxide and dust concentration in ground air and artificially raining and environmental air conditioning equipment. The application of the technology realizes the aim that people reform nature by utilizing nature. The method and the equipment can be used for controlling the temperature and the humidity of urban ground air and carrying out artificial rainfall and also used for preventing great loss on agriculture, forestry, electric industry, communication industry, and the like by natural disasters, such as strong wind, rainstorm, thunder, lightning, hail, and the like due to strongly convective weather; meanwhile, cool weather is more beneficial to the growth of crops and prevents damage by diseases and insects. In the aspect of fishery, the invention can improve the oxygen dissolving amount of a pond and prevent the generation of the phenomenon of fish dead by pond turn-over; meanwhile, cool water temperature is more beneficial to the growth of aquatic animals and plants.

The invention provides operating data acquiring system and data processing method for a silhouette rocket. The system comprises a rocket operating data acquiring device, and a handheld commanding terminal which communicates with the rocket operating data acquiring device; the rocket operating data acquiring device comprises a central processing unit, a pitching detecting circuit, a direction detecting circuit, a projectile consumption detecting circuit, a clock circuit and a Bluetooth communication circuit, wherein the pitching detecting circuit, the direction detecting circuit, the projectile consumption detecting circuit, the clock circuit and the Bluetooth communication circuit are connected with the central processing unit; the direction detecting circuit is equipped with a double-antenna GPS module; the pitching detecting circuit is equipped with an inclination angle sensor. With the adoption of the system, the starting time, direction angle, pitching angle, projectile consumption and other parameters of the rocket operation can be accurately acquired, related data can be transmitted to a silhouette management department on real time, and therefore, the meticulous process can be achieved; in addition, the operation is relatively simple, the working efficiency can be greatly increased, the technical problems of disconnecting commanding, operation and evaluation can be solved, the manmade error and inaccuracy can be avoided, and the scientific meteorologic silhouette rocket working and standard management are highly ensured.

High sea surface temperatures (SST) are a major factor in the formation and maintenance of tropical cyclones. Global warming has contributed to a rise in SSTs causing an increase in tropical cyclone formation. This increase in SSTs in the Atlantic basin is attributed to failing of the ThemoHaline Currents (THC) that provides warm ocean waters to Europe. Should the THC fail, it is estimated that Europe would be plunged into a 200-400 year ice age. The invention described herein uses OTEC or similar technology to pump cold ocean water to the surface, reducing SSTs limiting the formation and growth of tropical cyclones. Additional benefits would include strengthening of the THC as well as providing a stop-gap solution for global warming while more responsible manufacturing and industrial methods are designed and implemented. With limited additions to the OTEC platform other benefits can be derived including but not limited to mariculture, algaeculture, biodiesel and ethanol production, and carbon sequestration.