We Will Green The Deserts | Augustus Doricko, Rainmaker

We can control the weather. But almost nobody is ready for that.

Augustus Doricko, founder of Rainmaker, is building precipitation and weather modification technology that flies drones directly into clouds to increase rainfall at scale - and one day terraform entire planets.

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0:00 - Climate Change - Mitigate vs Adapt

07:50 - Water Scarcity Tech & Cloud Seeding

14:52 - Modelling Complex Systems

17:32 - Towards Atmospheric Engineering

24:52 - Technical Bottlenecks

32:29 - China’s $300M Weather Program

35:36 - State Bans & Political Backlash

40:43 - Public Fear vs Sexy Tech

47:17 - Falcon 1 → Terraforming

51:10 - Greening Australia

55:00 - AI in Weather Modeling

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This episode discusses cloud seeding, weather modification, Rainmaker, Augustus Doricko, water scarcity, Great Salt Lake, drought solutions, climate adaptation, geoengineering, precipitation technology, silver iodide, weather drones, atmospheric science, China cloud seeding, water security, terraforming deserts, AI weather modeling, hydroelectric power, water policy, deeptech climate.