Augustus Dorico

Onnistuminen on 35,3 prosenttia. Vau. Joten se on rauhassa. Yhtäkkiä on kriittinen ja rauhassa. Se ei ole hyvä. Se ei ole hyvä. Rainmaker on nykyinen rauhaseiden yritys, joka suosittelee, että se voi pysyä lakia rauhassa 6 vuotta. Se on suunnitelma. Luulen, että se on tehtävää. Kyllä.

Augustus Dorico is the company's founder. He says historically cloud seeding has been done using airplanes or ground generators to disperse the seeding agent, typically silver iodide. Rainmaker uses drones and radar technology. All right, you want to skedaddle?

We pile into a big SUV to go seed some clouds in Kamis, Utah, about an hour east of the lake. In an open field surrounded by mountains, Louis Meunier is prepping a drone for launch. And we just try to do it as fast as possible, just so we can get as much airtime as possible and not miss the conditions. Does this drone have a name? EL for Elijah. Yeah, so Elijah 119.

If you're not caught up on your biblical references, Elijah is a prophet whose prayer for rain ends a years-long drought. After a temporary ground hold from the FAA... Take off.

Dorico says flights like these can produce tens of acre feet of water. An acre foot is the equivalent of one acre of land, about the size of a football field, covered in water one foot deep. And it costs about $80 per flight. But today was kind of a bust. Though the clouds had the right temperature, they were just too diffuse to produce snow.

You need pretty particular conditions. So, I mean, successful in that drone flew well. Everybody is having a good time. That's nice. Dorico says they'll get better over time, and is confident they can not just stop the lake from drying up, but even refill it. Lots of doubt should be cast on that claim. Jeff French is a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Wyoming.

In its 80 year history, cloud seeding has never generated so much rain or snow that it's made a radical difference. When I posed some of this pushback to Rainmaker, they said, "...the assumption that cloud seeding is not enough to halt aridification is based on how legacy cloud seeding companies operate. We are the first company with the ability to meet the scale of the problem."

Työntekijöiden ja radarien käyttäminen saattaa järjestää rauhoja ja tilanteita, joita suurimmat järjestelmät ylittävät. Järjestelmät ovat kylmät, kylmät, kohti maat, ja ne voivat tarkistaa, kuinka paljon järjestelmää he luovat. Mutta Dorico arvostaa, että saavuttaminen Great Salt Lakella tarvitaan myös vedenkonservatiivisuutta. Se on kuin jos sinun tuli tullekin ja joku teki sinulle törnäkettä.