Have scientists discovered how to create downpours in the desert?
They have been using giant ionisers, shaped like stripped down lampshades on steel poles, to generate fields of negatively charged particles.
These promote cloud formation and researchers hoped they could then produce rain.
In a confidential company video, the founder of the Swiss company in charge of the project, Metro Systems International, boasted of success.
Helmut Fluhrer said: ‘We have achieved a number of rainfalls.’
It is believed to be the first time the system has produced rain from clear skies, according to the Sunday Times.
