Augustus Doricko

It'll be a huge utility first.

And then as time goes on, as we get into all the other sorts of applications, we'll probably work with crop insurers and farmers to help prevent crop failure.

We'll probably turn a lot more hydroelectric power online.

And then the fun terraforming stuff is kind of like five, 10 years away.

There's something called a cloud microburst.

So when you have a ton of convection, these clouds kind of collapse very suddenly.

This happens in nature already.

You can make it rain over tens of acres at a time.

There are theories about how to do that.

I'm mostly focused on getting the current tech to scale, but yeah, there's a world where that happens before 2030.

How far out does the cloud need to be seeded before it rains?

Yeah, so like I said, it's like 15 to 45 minutes before you get that beginning of precipitation.

So if a cloud is moving at 10 miles an hour, maybe you want to seed it five miles upwind.

That's it?

Have you heard of...

I think it's Mark Twain who said it, whiskey's for drinking and water's for fighting over.

Sorry, I know we were just talking about sobriety earlier.

But right now, if you look at the border of Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia, Ethiopia just built a dam on the Nile River.

Egypt will collapse if they do not have enough water.

They will go to war with Ethiopia over water if they do not get enough from the Nile.