The FBI can't even protect its own staff from being hacked. They can't be trusted with the mass surveillance of Americans.

The second-largest reservoir in the U.S. has dropped to record-low water levels. These satellite images show Colorado’s Lake Powell in 2017, when water levels were high, and now in 2026, when snow drought and unusually warm temperatures have driven water levels to record lows.

TLDR: @CJHandmer wrote two essays proposing plans to save the Colorado River that live rent free in my head. I think I have a better, cheaper, faster solution. Lake Mead has a storage capacity of 30M acre-feet and is around ~7MAF today Currently, cloud seeding couldn’t produce 23MAF/yr over the basin, but ~9MAF/yr of new precip is doable today. Currently, water from cloud seeding ranges ~$50-$1000 per AF depending on frequency of conditions. This is largely a function of how much you can amortize cost of drones/sensors/staff over frequency of conditions and, wrt hardware, useful life: the water is cheaper in wetter years. Important factor to account for here is the effective vs total precipitation (i.e. not all the snow/rain you bring down will reach Lake Mead before evaporating, percolating into aquifers, or being consumed). Unless you’re inducing precip immediately over a reservoir (which Rainmaker is testing this winter) effective precipitation ranges from ~10-80% in the Colorado River Basin. This increases your cost per acre foot commensurately. All of that to say, assuming Rainmaker never achieved autonomous operations, improved no atmospheric science, and cut no costs, we could tangibly refill Lake Mead in ~3-4 years for $7.5B/yr. As our tech improves the cost will lower and yield will increase, a lot. These are the types of claims that deserve ample skepticism and scrutiny. I am talking a big game. Can Rainmaker and I walk the walk? Cloud seeding has a history full of nonsense “science” interspersed with flashes of rigor. Sometimes MoDeLeD/SiMuLaTeD “evidence” of cloud seedings effects are directionally-correct-ish. Unfortunately, sometimes those modeled results have been doctored. Despite all of the groundbreaking research Rainmaker has already and continues to conduct, the reality is: 1) we haven’t published our first peer reviewed paper yet. 2) we haven’t made millions of acre feet of physically measurable precipitation. It is our responsibility to put our money where our mouth is. We are going to put A LOT of money into increasing the rigor and scale of this tech. We are going to provably produce infrastructure-scale water this winter. I am writing, in more detail, my proposed alternative plan to Casey Handmer’s.

🔥158 comments🔥thanks to you !!! There needs to be more!!! Rainmaker wants an exemption SOLELY FOR THEM to carry 4 MORE fireworks-style flares to seed clouds. This is not a poll, it’s a regulation. The FAA can say yes only if two things are true: it is safe, and it helps the public, not just the company. Write your comment why: 🚫 SAFETY IS NOT MET 🤨 AGAINST PUBLIC INTEREST If commenters show the flares are a fire, crash, or airspace risk, or that seeding is not a public benefit, the FAA has to weigh that. That can add limits, delay it, or STOP 🛑 the exemption. A one-line “I oppose” barely counts. Facts on safety first, then public interest, can change the outcome. If you want to make a difference and you don’t want weaker rules for cloud seeding, this can be a precedent for other private weather-modification companies Take 5 minutes and write your comment! click on each of the blue highlighted links in the post below, upper right corner is a gray button “comment” it opens a text box for you to leave your comment. You can also upload pictures on safety data or peer reviewed studies. ** In the comments are links to the safety data sheets, and peer reviewed studies. You can use the two pictures below as well in regards to safety 👇👇

Sara did it occur to you that maybe starting with transparency leading to revealing more solid information for those legislators that are not totally on board, could be a good strategy? This all or nothing attitude and approach might sound righteous to you and your cohorts, but in real life it takes finesse and vision when you are reliant on others to get onboard. This bill is a good 1st step towards accomplishing the ultimate goal! I applaud @nichols_senator for playing the long game!

Absolutely disgusting. A month later and we are back to brown tap water. Last summer veolia blamed ACHD for roadwork depleting wells. This summer (July 2) they blamed an almost week prior storm. Today no answer. Poor water management. @Veolia @shinealightgc @josh_idaho

I work in sustainable ag. Cloud seeding is real, public science: silver iodide, documented programs, mostly for rainfall. No secret plot needed to explain weather. Questions welcome. #AgTech #WaterSecurity

r u excited to read more of Rainmaker’s frontier science this week? 🥳 We are building the best atmospheric science lab in the world

New: Gov. Newsom does not rule out a special legislative session as PG&E and SoCal Edison push to shift costs onto insurance companies if the utilites cause another fire. "This is a consequential moment, you're seeing the consequences playing out" he said, pointing to markets.

We never got to talk about your testimony Chris, why is it a terrible idea? As long as it’s done by gradation, with extensive observation to characterize its effects, and increasingly accurate simulation, it seems viable and safe