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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: Rainmaker suspended Texas cloud seeding over two days before floods
“It was over two days prior that Rainmaker had suspended all of its cloud seeding operations in Texas, because one, our forecasters and our meteorologists saw that there was going to be this severe weather event, and we needn't operate to produce more water whe…”
Doricko: Rainmaker's Elijah is NATO's only severe icing-capable drone
“The Elijah is the only drone in all of NATO that can fly in severe icing conditions.”
Doricko: China leads the US in cloud seeding engineered nanoparticles
“The Chinese Meteorological Administration, also through these sort of proxies that exist in the Middle East have developed much, much more sophisticated engineered nanoparticles than any United States operation has.”
DiRico: Rainmaker suspended Texas operations two days before flooding occurred
“It was over two days prior that Rainmaker had suspended all of its cloud seeding operations in Texas because, one, our forecasters and our meteorologists saw that there was going to be this severe weather event, and we needn't operate to produce more water whe…”
DiRico: Rainmaker's July 2 flight released 70g silver iodide and 500g salt
“On July second, we conducted 1:19 minute cloud seeding flight where we released about 70 grams of silver iodide and 500 grams of salt, table salt. That was released at about 1600 feet above ground level into two clouds that dissipated over the course of two ho…”
DiRico: Lack of federal weather oversight invites unaccountable foreign operations
“If we don't have access to weather modification technology, If we don't regulate this at a federal level and ensure that there's accountability and attribution for these activities, then other people, other nation states could be conducting weather mod in the …”
Doricko: 29 US States Have Proposed Legislation Banning Weather Modification
“The state of the union is 29 states this year have proposed legislation to carte blanche all weather modification and atmospheric engineering.”
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: Silver iodide is less toxic by lethal dose than table salt
“If you think about the, like, LB-fifty, like the lethal dose of silver iodide, it's less than salt. It's less than table salt. It's milligrams per kilogram with salt, and then it's 2800 for silver iodide. So this is like a resoundingly safe material to be usin…”
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: Rainmaker supplies water more cheaply than desalination
“We can bring water more cost-effectively than even desalination.”
Doricko: China uses Wing Loong II military drones for cloud seeding
“China is retrofitting the equivalent of their MQ-Nine Reaper. So like our most advanced military drones, The equivalent of that in China, the Wing Long II they're using for cloud seeding missions.”
Doricko: UFC Will Host a Fight at the White House by July 2026
“I think that's also free money. I think that we live in clown world and there will be a UFC fight there.”
DiRico: China increased annual weather modification budget to $1.4B in 2025
“China recently, I think on the last time I was on TBPN, I talked about how they had a three hundred million dollar annual budget for their weather modification program. That as of 20, 25 has been up to 1.4 billion dollars.”
DiRico: China is deploying 100,000 cloud-seeding generators in Tibet
“But in building, ah, a 100,000 of these ground generators, and also using the Wing Long II and a bunch of their other military drones for aerial cloud seeding they're turning Tibet into, ah, a reservoir, a snowpack reservoir of unprecedented scale that will fe…”
DiRico: China increased weather modification budget to $1.4B in 2025
“China recently, I think on the last time I was on TVP and I talked about how they had a three hundred million dollar annual budget for their weather modification program, that as of 2025 has been up to 1.4 billion dollars.”
Doricko: Tennessee is trying to criminalize weather modification
“They're actually trying to elevate the punishment for weather modification to a criminal offense.”
DiRico: US weather modification programs are largely funded by municipal money
“So right now it's largely public municipal money that is going into these weather modification programs to increase water supply when there is drought or in preparation for drought.”
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.”
DiRico: Operation Popeye used Vietnam War cloud seeding to cause flooding
“There was something called Operation Popeye during the Vietnam War, where the deliberate intention of cloud seeding was to cause precipitation that would Like cause flooding and then impede supply chains on the Ho Chi Minh trail.”
DiRico: China plans 100,000 Tibetan plateau weather modification generators
“One thing that we do know about the weather mod program that they do have going is that they're planning to build a hundred and a 100,000 ground generators on the Tibetan plateau.”
Doricko: California water strategy requires 500k farmland acres fallowed by 2030
“The California State Water Supply Strategy, like, from the Department of Natural Resources, says that half a million acres of farmland have to turn into desert by 2030 in California. In order to like maintain water supply for the cities.”
Doricko: Phoenix is banning new housing development over water shortages
“Like Phoenix, Arizona is banning new housing development because there's not enough water.”
Doricko: 14 million acres of Florida farmland are currently in drought
“Well, fourteen million acres of farmland in Florida is currently in a drought.”
Doricko: Only 9% of atmospheric water over the US precipitates
“It turns out that only nine percent of all of the water that traverses the atmosphere in the United States precipitates over it. The vast majority is either recycled by the oceans, precipitates over the oceans, evaporates away, and never condenses again over t…”
Doricko: Almost all El Segundo hardware startups use Rangeview for parts
“When it comes to like immediate supply chain in Gundo, I think everybody has, or has already, or is having a part made by range view from Cameron Schiller's company.”
Doricko predicts a major surge in US printed circuit board manufacturing
“Boards, I think actually we are going to see, if not just because of soft banks, a hundred billion dollars that they maybe do or don't have we will see a lot more of in the United States soon.”
Doricko: US Government Attempted Hurricane Mitigation Under Project Stormfury
“With Project Storm Fury, the United States Weather Bureau in conjunction with the Air Force was flying out into the Atlantic to attempt to mitigate the severity of hurricanes. They did so back in the, what, seventies, sixties, seventies.”