I had a bit of an argument with Jerry Decker recently over an article he posted about some cloudbusting he had done. Along the way, he mentioned some group he knew who he said were doing a lot of cloudbusting. I suspected he ment the Weather Rangers group you have mentioned, so I finally got around to checking them out.
I do not think the equipment they are using could really do what they claim. In fact, I do not think it could do anything at all for reasons set out below, but I sent some information on the ecological considerations involved in cloudbusting to the group leader anyway, and sent you a copy of the letter I sent him.
All high-voltage electromagnetic equipment can break up clouds. TV and radio broadcasting antenas, power lines, radar dishes, microwave towers, big transformers, etc. all irritate the orgone around them into a mild oranur state. Clouds near them will disipate from the expansion triggered.
There is no way to reverse the process. No possible EM device can cause clouds to form. Neither can any EM device attract clouds from a distant point, or trigger rain from them. But there have been several cases of people who have seen the disipation of clouds by some home-made electrical device, and have jumped to the conclusion, based on what they know of electromagnetic theory, that the process could be reversed by reversing the polarity. Despite a lack of observational evidence, they then convince themselves that it is actually happening because the theory is so persuasive and they do not understand the processes involved in cloud formation and how electromagnetic energy interacts with the orgone field of the earth.
So I think the most likely explanation in the case of the so-called Weather Rangers is self-deception by power-freaks who would like to be able to control the weather and do not know enough about either orgonomy or conventional physics to know it is impossible to do so by any electromagnetic means.
In 1960, leading atmospheric physicist Bernard Vougnagut, streched a wire over a canyon and electrified it, inonizing the air around it. A thin line of cloud formed around the wire. This is conventionally considered to be ionization of the air with the ions providing consation nuclei for water vapor in the air to condense around. The extent of the effect is limited to a few inches at most, but there have been plenty of attempts to extend it by using a wire grid to obtain a cloud cover over the area below it. This type of small-scale weather modification has been tried in Russia and Mexico . It is so far the only method of electromagnetic weather control known. And it is virtually worthless. Controling weather over a distance of two inches is a joke. And it cannot be scaled up because of the inverse square law, which dictates that to obtain any effect at distances that would be worthwhile would require more electrical power than could be available.
For the same reason, I remain convinced that despite all popular claims to the contrary, the HAARP antenna array in Alaska cannot have any practical weather control function. It is certainly large enough to disrupt the weather, as all strong electrical excitation sources do, but there is a vast gap between disrupting the weather and controlling it.
Several inventors have claimed a discovery of electrical weather control. A gadget called a "Joe Cell" has been claimed to alter weather. There has been some similiar claim made recently by a David Wells. Some of the "free energy" buffs have made a similiar claim for the Newman motor, a well-publicized free energy invention. So far, none of these inventors have done a public demonstartion of their devices under controlled conditions. But I do not accuse them of intentional deceit. I think they are sincerely convinced they have made a great discovery.
But if any such discovery is ever made, the effects of the device, whatever it may turn out to be, will have to be consistant with what we already know of the orgone energy envelope of the earth and the way it causes weather events to occur. No device will ever be invented that can do something contrary to what we know of the behavior of orgone energy. We simply cannot ignore what we already know and what is based on extensive obnservation just because some individual unfamiliar with the known facts claims to have discovered something.
And given the long history of group self-deception, from religions to the current "Global Warming" hysteria, the mere number of people who suport the initial claimant is irrelevant. A large number of people can get caught up in a fantasy or cult movement as easily as one person.
That may sound arrogant and narrow-minded to the alternative scientific community, but I am not running for office and am not in a popularity contest. And where cloudbusting is concerned the stakes are too high to treat cultists and fantasies seriously.
Joel Carlinsky
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