Rain-makers threaten to piss on solar panel’s chips

It has all the ingredients of a farce. One government-sponsored body is seeding clouds, trying to create artificial rain; another is pumping $2bn into developing solar panel technology. Let us hope the two sides are talking to each other – or that a documentary team is recording the scenes as a cloudburst from the National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology soaks guests touring Masdar’s new solar plant.