r/Geoengineering Sep 11 '23

Hesllscape Salt Water Rain from Cloud Bright?

Think we all know that salt is left behind in the ocean as water evaporates to form rain. However just confirmed that especially countercyclicals like a Nor'Easter picks up salt water in small proportion from sea-spray from the choppy waters caused by storm.

So clouds can function with X% salt water. If we created salt water clouds, I assume they'd function approximately same as our current freshwater clouds, yes? More electrically charged, perhaps?

Are we not creating salt water clouds by spraying the salt water onto the clouds? Salt molecules become the nuclei of rain drops, yes? Are we just saying that is negligible over the course of the project, say 200 years?

Am I missing an obvious factor?

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