Augustus Doricko
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first heard Mar 2025
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Like the the thing that I think everybody needs to realize is that we've been doing it unintentionally for hundreds of years.
Yeah.
Like you build a city, then you have a heat island that affects cloud formation and precipitation patterns.
If you have a a coal plant or a steel plant or a nat gas plant, the steam and the aerosol you emit reliably creates more clouds and precipitation like tens of miles downwind as well.
Um, the emit the emissions from our cars, right?
Like those have pollutants in them, um apart from just like CO two considerations.
So we we do modify the weather unintentionally all the time.
Yeah.
Rainmaker's thesis is that like we should be modifying it intentionally to either like unfuck the earth as it stands or make it more lush and abundant once we've done the former.
Um when it comes to knock-on effects.
Um
The common question is like, you know, if you're making it rain more here, is that reducing precipitation downwind there?
Totally reasonable question.
Like I think on its face that that logic makes sense.
Unfortunately, the system's pretty complicated.
Um
It turns out that only 9% of all of the water that traverses the atmosphere in the United States precipitates over it.
The vast majority is either recycled by the oceans, precipitates over the oceans, evaporates away, and never condenses again over the US.
So if you just increase the utilized water in the atmosphere, then it's purely positive sun.
And you can select to some extent for which clouds aren't naturally going to precipitate with the appropriate radar.
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