Rainmaker just produced ~19M gallons of water in Alaska via next-gen cloud seeding over 3 hours of operations. We are the first company to provably produce precipitation in Alaska. As promised, we’ve linked our white paper and relevant data. In the future, Rainmaker will protect and restore glaciers with man-made snowfall. Immediately, this demonstration shows how Rainmaker will add new water to the Colorado River and Great Salt Lake in the coming months. We turned around this analysis and white paper just a couple days after operating. There are many data sources I want to deepen our understanding of the atmosphere and increase our provable production; we’re building the instruments to collect that data in subsequent operations. But at Rainmaker, we won’t tout LOIs, simulations, or lab tests. What matters is physically measuring that you’ve affected the atmosphere; proving that we’ve produced water. We prefer sharing only the tech that has proven to make more water for farms, industries, and ecosystems in need. Expect a regular cadence of these from us as we build the best atmospheric science lab in the world. Feedback is welcome in the interim. Rainmaker Century.

I’m excited to share that I’ve joined @valaratomics as Head of Software. Building alongside people tackling some of the hardest engineering problems in the world has shaped how I think about great teams, ambitious missions, and what it means to truly build. A big reason I’m making this move is @isaiah_p_taylor and his vision for the future of nuclear energy. It aligns deeply with something I’ve believed for a long time: energy capacity is one of the fundamental constraints on humanity’s continued progress. If we want to build more, compute more, manufacture more, explore further, and raise the standard of living around the world, we need dramatically more abundant energy. I believe nuclear is the best path to getting there. At Valar, I’ll be building a team of exceptional software engineers, people who are builders at heart, who want ownership, move fast, and are excited to turn ambitious ideas into real systems. If the future of energy excites you as much as it excites us, DM me. We’re building.

Congratulations to our customer, @valaratomics, on its announcement of new funding. Following its recent achievement of criticality with the Ward 250 #microreactor#, this latest milestone reflects the growing momentum behind the company's vision for scalable, resilient clean energy solutions. Valar was one of Urenco's earliest #AdvancedFuels# customers as we expanded our capabilities to support the emerging reactor technologies sector. We're proud to be strengthening our partnership and continuing to provide the fuel cycle services that will help enable its ambitious growth plans. More here: #nuclear# #energy# #AdvancedReactors# #innovation#

cannot think of a stronger bear signal than the “they offer raw milk” LARP if the founders of the company are too stupid to understand that raw milk comes with safety risk and zero upside, how can I possibly trust them to build a fucking nuclear reactor

Happy Monday. On today's show: - @gruber (Daring Fireball) - @isaiah_p_taylor (Valar Atomics) - @shaunmmaguire (Sequoia) - @JLopas (Base Power) - @ronusedh (Intology) - Beau Gaston (Satyress) See you on the stream.