When FIFA announced few months ago that Qatar will host the 2022 World Cup football tournament, experts slammed the world’s football governing body for choosing Qatar as the host because the climate of the Middle Eastern nation is too hot to play an energy-sapping game like football. It seems that the unnecessary criticism of the experts were not liked a bit by the Qatari people and now a Qatar University department has designed an artificial cloud, which would offer shade during the World Cup matches. Superb idea, brilliant effort, to say the least. It is learnt that the cloud would hover over the stadium during the matches to cool off stadiums from the scorching heat.
USA Today quoted Saud Abdul Ghani, head of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department, as saying that the working model of the artificial cloud would cost around $500,000. He added that his team has decided to join hands with the Qatar Science and Technology Park to fulfill their dream project, which is definitely one-of-a kind. The “cloud” will be built of light carbon material. It will be filled with helium and would run on solar energy.
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