Cloudseeding is a technology that facilitates rainfall by extracting the maximum amount of moisture from the atmosphere, condensing it around chemical pellets.
In other words, cloudseeding is designed to produce and store water from moisture-dense clouds in preparation for a drought but not necessarily to end one.
To their surprise, they discovered that the seed-formation rates for sulphuric acid and ammonia are between a tenth and a thousandth of those needed to account for the cloudseeding actually seen in the atmosphere.
She flew missions delivering relief supplies after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, as well as cloud-seeding aircraft to ensure clear skies over Beijing during the Olympics.
Though rain is indeed falling, it is unclear to what extent the cloud-seeding operations have increased the rainfall and whether it will be enough to pull Venezuela out of its electricity crisis.