Augustus Doricko

So...

You know, one interesting part of all this is that it's not really like a partisan issue, right?

It's not that like Republicans like it and Democrats don't or vice versa or that Republicans know about it and Democrats don't.

It's really everything west of the Mississippi.

People have some knowledge of this because those are the driest states in the union.

They've been cloud seeding for the longest amount of time or they've experimented with it the most because they need the water most desperately.

So Colorado and California, Texas and Idaho, they all have weather modification programs that the state funds.

So cloud seeding was invented in the United States.

It's an American technology that was done for the first time in New York in 1946.

So the very first effective weather modification operations were done in the 40s after World War II.

Then there have been a series of programs that have popped up either domestically or abroad in the decades in between.

But we've never actually been able to prove that it works until 2017.

What changed in 2017 was this.

So to give you the overview of what cloud seeding is, about 93% of all of the liquid and ice water that traverses the lower atmosphere over the US, so the water in the clouds, right?

About 93% of that doesn't precipitate over land.

It just evaporates away or gets recycled by the oceans.

That means that there's a ton of water up there that's just going to waste, that you can bring down.

So certain clouds that aren't naturally precipitating or that aren't very efficiently precipitating, you can identify those with radar.

You can measure that there's liquid in them that isn't coming down.

fly a drone up into them, disperse a material that freezes the liquid in the cloud, and we can talk about what that material is later, but disperse a material that freezes the liquid in the cloud into big, heavy snowflakes that become heavy enough to fall down, and if it's warm beneath the cloud, melt into rain.