GoKawiilRainmaker's cloud-seeding drones triggered rainfall over Homer, Alaska without public notice
San Francisco startup Rainmaker used planes and drones to disperse silver iodide into clouds above Homer, Alaska on 23 August, a cloud-seeding technique meant to accelerate rain formation. The company says the operation produced 19 million US gallons of water in three hours, but local resident Cooper Freeman says the community was not informed in advance and no environmental monitoring followed.