Augustus Doricko

You disperse the material.

So we have this aerosol dispersion system that basically just emits individual particles that the water freezes onto.

And then with the same radar you found the water with, you can now see it freezing, growing into bigger snowflakes, and then eventually bigger drops and measure how much precipitates downwind.

You're introducing an agent that the water freezes onto, and then it's just the weight of the water that pulls it down.

So for every, you know, pound of this that you put up, you get in excess of 40 million pounds down on the ground.

40 million pounds of water.

40 million?

Wow.

Yeah.

How many drones does it take to do this?

Like three.

That's it?

So what we do is we juggle them.

So one drone will go up.

Once that reaches altitude, the next drone will go up.

The first drone, after dispersing its full payload, will come down.

And you'll just cycle that as long as the conditions persist.

So sometimes that means you're out there for two hours.

are forward operations specialists, though.

It's a lot of former vets, National Forest Service guys, oil roughnecks, people that are willing just to live out on a mountain for nine months at a time.