Weather Control

This post has nothing to do with Katrina and is in no way a conspiracy theory blaming the Emperor and his warlords for the hurricane. I was reading an article this morning, however, that described an industry I otherwise had no idea existed -- weather control. And I am completely fascinated.

There are a number of private corporations that offer weather modification services to increase rainfall for crops, to mitigate destruction from hurricanes and the like. Since I don't have the scientific wherewithal to assess whether these corporations are legitimate and their solutions plausible, I leave it to you to let me know (although I assume they would not have capital to stay in business if there wasn't minimal feasibility).

Dyno-Mat, Inc. claims that it can reduce the power of hurricanes.

A hurricane is a collection of thunderstorms, spinning in a counter clockwise motion along with the Earth's rotation. This collection of thunderstorms can grow to a very large size and successfully taking one of them on is a task that has never been done before. The way the Dyn-O-Mat team is going after the storm is by using what is called a "Venturi Action". The "Venturi Action" can be described as a pie-shaped piece that will be cut from the outer band into the eye of the storm. The intended result of this action is to allow the system to use it's own strength on itself. Essentially disrupt the cell, in hopes of significantly weakening the devastating power of the storm.
http://www.dynomat.com/storm.shtml.

Weather Modification, Inc. performs "cloud seeding" to increase rainfall in places that it is needed.

Weather modification is also commonly known as cloud seeding, cloud modification, atmospheric resource management, and precipitation management. Weather Modification, Inc. specializes and excels in all aspects of this water management technology. Specifically, we offer a complete range of services from turn-key operational programs for rainfall increase (rain enhancement), snow pack augmentation, hail damage mitigation (hail suppression), and fog clearing
(fog dissipation), to technical assistance and/or technology transfer for all of these.
http://www.weathermod.com/

Apparently, Nissan Corporation used some of these techniques to prevent a parking lot of its cars from getting pelted with hail. http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1628848

Hailstones are formed and begin with a piece of dust in the clouds. There is a lot of activity going on, and what we do is to de-ionize that activity in the clouds and keep those dust particles from collecting moisture out of the clouds in turn reacting and forming what we know as a hailstone.

Leave it to the private sector to solve all of mankind's problems or make them worse. I am torn. Are we playing God or making the world a better place? Or both?