I have my doubts about the effectiveness of the Weather Rangers technology. I do not really expect them to be able to do anything about a hurricane. But they are dangerous anyway. By setting a bad precedent, they are setting things up for some group at some future time to try the same thing with the Reich cloudbuster. And THAT really does work as claimed.
Until now, wildcat cloudbusting has been done by single individuals, with the main exceptions being the ACO and the C.OR.E. Network, both of which, whatever I may think of their policies, are hard-core Reichians who at least are familiar with orgonomy. That limits, to some degree, at least, the mistakes they can make. But most of the Weather Rangers come from a different background: the so-called free-energy movement. These are invention-freaks who are into new technologies for the sake of new technologies, and usually the most mechanistically-thinking people on the planet. It would be hard to think of a worse sub-culture to have become interested in cloudbusting.
And at least one of them, Ash Palise, already has a cloudbuster, as pictured on his website and used by him to cause the extreme floods in Queensland, Australia last year. And another of them, Jamie Ogg, is very familiar with orgonomy, but has apparently developed a drinking problem and become an outspoken advocate of promiscuous cloudbusting. So what is dangerous about the Weather Rangers is not so much their technology, but their ideology. If we can put enough pressure on them to make them stop, or at least keep quiet about it, we can avoid worse problems down the line, when some of them inevitably lose confidence in the Wells device and turn to the real cloudbuster instead.
The theory expounded by David Wells makes no sense at all in terms of what we know about the orgone physics of the atmosphere, but I used to do a stage magic act, and I recognize a stage magician's line of "patter" when I see it. Anything the magician says while on stage is a distraction intended to divert attention away from what is really going on. So I pay little attention to what David Wells says about HOW his machine works. He may or may not sincerely believe his own theories, but that makes no difference.
The actual mechanism of any electrical device on the weather, if in fact there is really any such effect at all, is that any electrical device will create some degree of oranur, the more voltage, the stronger the oranur reaction of the atmosphere, as a very broad general rule. In most cases, noticeable effects are restricted to high-voltage AC devices, but in at least one case, the use of electric servo motors to manipulate a cloudbuster, the 12 volt DC from batteries was sufficient to excite the field of the cloudbuster enough to break up the clouds the operators were trying to create and ruin their attempt to make rain.
So I cannot rule out the possibility that the Wells device is exciting the surrounding atmosphere enough to break up clouds, and possibly enough to block weather systems from moving into an area, and such phenomena, well-known and understood in orgonomy, once having been observed and confirmed, he and his followers have extrapolated from that and convinced themselves the machine can do other things which they have not really seen.
Complicating the situation is the existence of a class of devices known as "radionics machines", which look impressive but actually do nothing. Radionics devices do not have any effect on the atmosphere in the sense that a cloudbuster does, but they do have an effect on the mental processes of the operator, convincing him it is the machine that is having the effect, not his own organism, and thereby circumventing the strong conditioning most people are subjected to in childhood which prevents direct bioenergetic contact with the atmosphere.
This bioenergetic contact renders an individual or strongly-identified group able to affect the weather on a local scale, usually up to a few miles. But to allow themselves to do it without the anxieties raised by the cultural conditioning which inhibits such direct contact with the energetic environment, the person ( s ) involved must believe the machine is what is causing the effects. This displacement of the responsibility onto a machine enables the bioenergetic manipulation of local weather to take place.
Of course neither the electrically-generated oranur field from his device, if indeed it actually does do anything, nor the unconscious bioenergetic effects of his own organism would have anything like the long-range effects Mr. Wells claims, but if such effects have been observed locally, it would be easy to convince oneself the same effects were possible at a longer distance, especially if rationalized by a :"theory" that made it seem reasonable.. So my hypothesis is that once he had seen small clouds break up overhead due to the excitation from his machine, Wells went on to unknowingly re-invent a form of radionics device and obtain other locally observable effects on the local atmosphere without understanding that it was his own body energy field, not the machine, that was causing them.
And going on from that, his theory predicts effects at much longer ranges, and he and his followers are so convinced of the theory by what they have seen happen, that they believe they are having long-range effects even though they are not. And their evident sincerity goes a long way towards convincing others.