Cloud Seeding
topic on 2 shows · 13 statements across 4 episodes
13 statements about Cloud Seeding, every show
Cloud seeding industry is shifting to drone delivery systems
“So today, cloud heating is done with generators on the ground and generally with aircraft, but there is a big movement right now to switch up that hardware and use drones instead.”
Around 60 countries conduct cloud seeding, led by China
“Internationally, there's around 60 countries that do some form of cloud seeding. China is the leader, and they've been doing cloud seeding for a very, very long time, but generally speaking, it's not done very much today.”
Cloud seeding cannot scale to daily use with silver iodide
“We want to scale it like irrigation is used today in agriculture, at least in the U.S., and in order to do that, we want to have an agent that, that degrades in the environment, that goes away in the environment, and cloud seeding can't scale with silver iodid…”
US federal ban on cloud seeding is highly unlikely
“I think that a blanket federal mandate to ban cloud seeding or weather mod is highly unlikely.”
DiRico: Rainmaker and cloud seeding had no connection to Texas floods
“Rainmaker and cloud seeding had nothing to do with the flooding that unfolded”
DiRico: Academic proof of cloud seeding attribution only emerged in 2017
“The first of which is that it wasn't until 2017 that attribution had been Physical attribution of cloud seeding's effects had been seen and proven in an academic context.”
Doricko: Cloud seeding is the only way to supply water to Arizona
“Like you need it to come from either the mountains in Flagstaff or the Colorado River. And the only way to get it, there's cloud seeding.”
Doricko: Banning Cloud Seeding Is Like Banning Rocketry or Fission
“I think that if you ban five seating, you're basically banning like rocketry or fission.”
Doricko: Cloud seeding politics split East-West over water, not Left-Right
“It's not really like a right-left issue, so much as it is like an east-west, west issue, because the west doesn't have water. So Democrats and Republicans alike on the western half of the US are like, oh, this is sick. I would love to have water. Then the peop…”
Doricko: Decades of studies show no health impacts from cloud seeding silver iodide
“People have done 80 or 30 or 50 years, depending on the watershed, studies on the concentration of silver iodide that ends up in the water and the soil. And after decades of operation, you only see parts per trillion of this stuff. Like, you need super sophist…”
Doricko: No reliable data shows cloud seeding causes downwind drought
“The evidence of downwind drought is totally uncompelling. Nobody's provided reliable data there”
Doricko: Desert reforestation requires water conveyance and cloud seeding
“You need the water though, so unless you're setting up enormous conveyance systems, which China largely is, and cloud seeding in addition to that, it's a non-starter.”
Hays: Cloud seeding startups should own the land they rain on
“Cause like that, that does feel like, you know, verticalizing and like capturing the full value that, that you guys can create over time is just like very obviously, like you should own the land that you're raining water down on and, you know, gain you know, t…”