Augustus Doricko

In the industry, that's called stealing from Peter to pay Paul.

If you make it rain more in one place, will it rain less downwind?

So I mentioned at the beginning of our conversation too, you can think of the water in the sky, the atmospheric rivers, kind of like how you would think about a normal river.

The Colorado River, all of its water is allocated already, right?

Everybody already draws down from that.

It is 100% utilized, which is why by the time it gets to Mexico, there's not much there.

There is about 10x more water in the atmosphere over the US that isn't precipitating.

So there's 10 times more that we could tap into before we even get into a question of whether it's going to reduce precipitation downwind.

That's really important because I want to play a positive sum game, right?

There's not scientific publication at this point in time to suggest that there's going to be less precipitation downwind.

But I think that as we scale this operation a lot, you're going to see...

You know the movie Chinatown?

Yeah.

You're going to see people fighting over cloud water rights, for sure.

I think we're probably like three to five years away from that.

But at some point, people will have to start thinking about, hopefully the federal government, how to distribute that water appropriately.

For the time being, it's exclusively positive sun, more water than what would come down otherwise.

Yeah.

Well, can you prevent flooding?

Can you make a system precipitate less?