Cloud seeding is an unfamiliar topic to many U.S. citizens, especially those outside of drought-stricken regions of America.
Beyond the image of a factory producing puffs of cloud, cloud seeding is a mystery to most. When I asked my colleagues about what they knew about cloud seeding, they either had no idea what I was talking about or compared it to the practice of “crystal seeding,” where chemists seeking to make a solid crystal of product out of a liquid product will place a grain of ideal crystal (called the seed) into the solution, inducing the formation. . .