Aquasky

A weather modification company (Under development and seeking funding)

Clint co-founded AquaSky LLC in 2015, an electrostatic cloud seeding venture built to make precipitation enhancement cheaper, cleaner, and more precise than conventional methods. Instead of dispersing silver iodide or other pyrotechnic agents into a cloud, AquaSky's patent-pending system charges ordinary water droplets with a high-voltage electrostatic field and releases them from an aircraft-mounted spray system. The charged droplets attract and collide with existing cloud droplets, accelerating the natural freezing and coalescence process that produces rain, without introducing chemical seeding agents into the atmosphere.

As a Research Leader at USDA-ARS's Aerial Application Technology Research Unit, Clint held the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) permit authorizing research cloud seeding across the state. That license became the foundation for a public/private partnership: USDA-ARS supplied government aircraft, pilots, and research infrastructure; the Texas Weather Modification Association (TWMA), and more specifically the West Texas Weather Modification Association (WTWMA), supplied radar data, meteorological support, and operational expertise built over decades of running weather modification programs in the region; AquaSky supplied the electrostatic spray technology.

In the summer of 2017, the partnership ran 10 research seeding operations within 125 miles of San Angelo, Texas. Each storm was seeded with roughly 45 gallons of electrostatically charged tap water — no silver iodide, no flares. Dr. Arquimedes Ruiz-Columbié of Active Influence and Scientific Management and Texas Tech University independently analyzed the seeded storms against unseeded control storms using radar data. The results: seeded storms lasted 52% longer, covered 63% more area, and produced 254% more precipitation mass than their unseeded counterparts — outperforming WTWMA's benchmark data for conventional pyrotechnic seeding from 2012–2016, which showed 36% lifetime, 41% area, and 124% precipitation mass increases over the same period. Across the season, the program generated an estimated 18,000 acre-feet of additional water. For water management districts, hail suppression programs, and insurers evaluating weather modification investments, that combination of independent third-party analysis, a licensed research framework, and results that beat the conventional benchmark is the kind of evidence that holds up to scrutiny.