{"id":121,"date":"2012-09-15T18:31:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T18:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/meteo\/?page_id=121"},"modified":"2012-10-04T06:27:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T06:27:23","slug":"there-are-some-real-benefits-to-weathertec-compared-to-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/weathertec-overview\/there-are-some-real-benefits-to-weathertec-compared-to-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of WeatherTec\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advantages of WeatherTec\u2122 include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"arrowlist\">\n<li>Reduced risk of \u201cover\u201d seeding \u2013 silver iodide seeding may produce too many \u201cseeds\u201d reducing the growth potential of each (a property that is deliberately chosen in hail suppression)<\/li>\n<li>Environmental benefit \u2013 WeatherTec\u2122 relies on naturally occurring aerosol particles and does not introduce artificial chemicals to enhance rainfall<\/li>\n<li>Removes cost of seeding agent \u2013 silver iodide is relatively expensive while WeatherTec\u2122 uses natural (i.e. free) seeding agents<\/li>\n<li>Energy efficient &#8211; traditional cloud seeding tends to rely on aeroplanes or rockets which require more energy than our system while WeatherTec\u2122 can be solar \/ wind powered<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHigher\u201d temperature operations \u2013 the contact freezing process (i.e. the process that WeatherTec\u2122 influences) starts to work at higher temperatures than the depositional process (i.e. silver iodide seeding) (Young 1993). This means that WeatherTec\u2122 may operate on some convective and orographic clouds where silver iodide is not effective.<\/li>\n<li>Continues to operate after ice is formed \u2013 silver iodide only helps the initial process to form tiny ice particles and after that does nothing. In contrast, the charge produced by WeatherTec\u2122 continues to work and to help charged ice particles to grow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"info\">WeatherTec\u2122 is more environmentally friendly than alternatives<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advantages of WeatherTec\u2122 include: Reduced risk of \u201cover\u201d seeding \u2013 silver iodide seeding may produce too many \u201cseeds\u201d reducing the growth potential of each (a property that is deliberately chosen in hail suppression) Environmental benefit \u2013 WeatherTec\u2122 relies on naturally occurring aerosol particles and does not introduce artificial chemicals to enhance rainfall Removes cost of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":75,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-121","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions\/256"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}