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ESTm / Artificial Clouds Nomadic, Robotic, Lightweight Architectures for Extreme Environments
Instructor: Marcelo Spina and Andrew Atwood SCI-?-Arc, Summer 2012
-Artificial clouds driven by solar-?powered engines might be deployed at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to help keep the stadiums from overheating. Each cloud, as a short video hosted over at the BBC explains, "is constructed from an advanced, lightweight, and strong carbon-?-fiber material.The interior of the cloud is injected with helium gas to make it float. The cloud hovers like a helicopter and is remotely controlled. In this way, the cloud hovers over the football ground, shielding it from direct sunlight and providing a favorable climatic environment. The cloud is also programmed to continuously change its shielding position according to the prevailing east-?-to-?-west path of the sun. So much for roofs, then, if you can simply deploy artificial meteorological events in the form of robotic clouds at an estimated