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Why Does China Outmatch an American Startup on Weather Modification?

President Xi has made becoming a weather superpower a stated priority. Rainmaker, a ragtag American startup seeking Middle East water deals, faces about 12 Chinese engineers and bureaucrats from a 40,000-person weather modification staff. China and Japan already research typhoon modulation, though making hurricanes bigger or smaller is not possible today.

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How Humans are Artificially Manipulating Weather | KMP Ep.57 ·

The Katie Miller Podcast

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  1. How Does Rainmaker Make Rain and Snow?Despite the name Rainmaker, the company mostly makes snow.
  2. Why Does Rainmaker Say Cloud Seeding Did Not Cause the Texas Flood?Rainmaker says it was a natural disaster and had nothing to do with cloud seeding.
  3. How Do You Make Sure Cloud-seeded Water Is Clean?Releasing 20 grams of silver iodide over a large area adds parts per quadrillion of silver iodide, not one part per million, which would exceed the EPA…
  4. How Autonomous Are the Cloud-seeding Drones?Forward specialists, mostly veterans, wildcat firefighters, and ski patrol, unpack the drones and fly them using radar and satellite data.
  5. Why Does Federal Weather-modification Notice Fail to Reach People?The only federal weather-modification rules date to 1972 and require a NOAA form that almost nobody sees.
  6. Why Do Utah and Colorado Regulate Cloud Seeding?Cloud-seeding technology will be increasingly available to wanton, negligent, or malicious actors.
  7. How Do You Know Cloud Seeding Actually Works?In January in Oregon with the Department of Agriculture, after two years of Rainmaker tests that mostly failed, drones seeded clouds and snow fell about 30…
  8. How Do You Think About Neuralink in the Future?He calls Neuralink Jesus-level technology, as Elon has said: it can let someone communicate with their mind when they previously could not, and erase pain.

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