Rainmaker used ten drones to seed clouds over Alaska and generated 19 million gallons of rain in three hours. The startup envisions a future where AI-coordinated drone fleets could control weather globally, preventing hurricanes and ending droughts.
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The weather modification startup called Rainmaker says that 10 drones that flew over Alaska's Kenai Peninsula generated an estimated 19 million gallons of additional rainfall in just 3 hours using what they call a glacogenic cloud seeding. Applications for this kind of technology include drought relief, agriculture, wildfire prevention, and water security. So this is the abundance thesis that predicts that water becomes massively abundant when technology to create it becomes cheap. And, you know, 10 drones creating 19 million gallons of water in 3 hours is pretty damn cheap.
Imagine a swarm, a fleet of drones in the style of Rainmaker's drones that are continuously in flight, probably solar-powered so they can be permanently aloft. And they are just dispensing on an as-needed basis, but under the control of some centralized AI algorithm, the particulates, the nuclei needed for either snow or rain, all informed by a global weather AI model, we could, in principle, I think with some further development of Rainmaker's technology and similar technologies, we could have total weather control. And that would be, from a natural disaster perspective, imagine being able to divert hurricanes. Or disperse hurricanes before they form.
