Carlo CocuzziAI Expert, Pod Cast Host, Real Estate Investor and Funding Specialist

Drones Could Give Us Total Weather Control

8 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In a brief two‑speaker YouTube discussion, the hosts present Rainmaker’s claim that a fleet of ten drones flying over Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula produced an estimated 19 million gallons of extra rainfall within three hours using a method they call “glacogenic cloud‑seeding.” They outline potential applications such as drought relief, agricultural irrigation, wildfire prevention, and broader water security, linking the claim to an “abundance thesis” that water could become massively abundant once the technology to generate it is cheap. The conversation then shifts to a speculative vision: a permanent, solar‑powered swarm of drones managed by a centralized AI that could dispense cloud‑seeding particles on demand, guided by a global weather model, potentially enabling total weather control—including diverting or dispersing hurricanes before they form.

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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.