Several years ago, the increasing pace of desert expansion, drought, and general atmospheric chaos prompted me to propose the development of a Desert Research Center in the arid portion of the American Southwest, with the goal of demonstrating a long-term desert greening effect using the Reich cloudbuster. During the years 1952-1956, Wilhelm Reich investigated basic energetic-atmospheric functions related to drought and desert formation, and demonstrated clear desert greening effects during his cloudbuster operations near Tucson, Arizona (1, 2). His early experiments provided the basic guiding principles for this more recent desert research (3,4). As a preliminary step in the development of a long-term desert greening project in the American Southwest, it was important to determine how much influence separate short-term cloudbusting operations could have on the desert atmosphere in an exceedingly dry area. In the summer of 1989, this experimental program of desert cloudbusting was conducted. Five separate field experiments were planned and announced in advance, undertaken by teams of workers using portable equipment, and recorded in extensive field observations. National Weather Service (NWS) data were used later to analyze the geographical distribution and intensity of atmospheric effects.
Throughout the 1990s, extended periods of field research were undertaken with the Reich cloudbuster by James DeMeo, in the harsh deserts of Israel, Namibia, and the Eastern Sahel of Africa. Details on those additional new experiments have been published in various issues of Pulse of the Planet journal, available at: http://www.orgonelab.org/cart/xpulse.htm. A full Bibliography of Dr. DeMeo's publications is also posted to this web site.