The man who wants to control the weather with lasers

By Jacopo Prisco, for CNN

How does laser actually affect the weather? Just like cloud seeding, it can create new clouds where there are none, by inducing condensation: naturally occurring water vapor is condensed into droplets, and ice crystals form, mimicking the natural process that creates clouds.

That way, rainfall can be triggered to “empty” the atmosphere and increase the potential of dry weather later on: “We did it on a laboratory scale, we can already create clouds, but not on a macroscopic scale, so you don’t see a big cloud coming out because the laser is not powerful enough and because of a lot of technical parameters that we can’t yet control,” Professor Wolf told CNN’s Nick Glass…..