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Qatar Hopes to Cool Stadiums with Artificial Cloud

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James M. Dorsey
Mar 23, 2011
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A Qatar University group of scientists has designed a remote control artificial cloud that would hover like a helicopter in the air during the 2022 World Cup to cool off stadiums and shield them from the desert country’s blistering summer sun.

Saud Abdul Ghani, head of the university’s Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department, said his group woul…

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