Can some type of heating be used to speed-evaporate large quantities of water into the air? This water would be carried by the clouds, to wherever the clouds go. Wherever the clouds rain down, can be a pumping station, perhaps. We could use quantative evaporation (via solar or other means) and wind to transport water over large distances?
2007-10-08 15:31:02 · 4 answers · asked by piqchure2 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Not practical. The energy you spend heating the water would probably be more than you would use to transport the water via surface vehicle like truck or train. Also you can't control where a cloud drifts or when it starts to precipitate.
2007-10-08 15:39:15 · answer #1 · answered by kevpet2005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice idea. But it would require tremendous power to accomplish something like that. Once that moisture is in the air the temperature would have to be held to maintain a cloud. The sky is a very large place.
You want to move water around? Use a pipe.
We have pipelines that transport oil and gas over hundreds and hundreds of miles. Why not water?
2007-10-08 22:39:51 · answer #2 · answered by E. F. Hutton 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not practicable.We are not even able to make the clouds shed whatever water vapor it is already holding by the method of artificial rain making.Artificial rain making effort has not become successful so far.
2007-10-09 05:34:28 · answer #3 · answered by Arasan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am thinking no as there is pollution in the air and your water would be bad.
2007-10-08 22:42:49 · answer #4 · answered by lookingforanswers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋