Artificial Cloud Would Help Lower Temperatures in Qatar World Cup

The 2011 World Cup, to be held in Qatar, will be played in winter time when temperatures regularly reach 40 degrees and even 50 degrees with 90% of humidity in the Persian Gulf. Due to the high temperatures, the stadium will be chilled using solar-powered devices.

According to newspapers ‘The Peninsula’ and ‘Gulf News’, experts from the department of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Qatar have designed the prototype of an artificial cloud, made ​​of a light weight carbon and four solar panels as a propellant, which would be remote-controlled (which can change its orientation depending on the position of the sun) and placed above the field to provide shade and lower temperatures.

Making this artificial cloud would cost around $ 500,000.