cloud seeding

“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…”

“I think that if you ban five seating, you're basically banning like rocketry or fission.”

“The evidence of downwind drought is totally uncompelling. Nobody's provided reliable data there”

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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.”

“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.”

“Rainmaker and cloud seeding had nothing to do with the flooding that unfolded”