Company: RAIN
Filing Date: 2025-01-31
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001213900-25-008536
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Company: Rain Enhancement Technologies Holdco, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-31
Form: S-1
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and the effectiveness of our marketing and sales efforts to develop a robust and diverse client base. The primary factors that impact
our results and present significant opportunities, as well as pose risks and challenges, are described below. RET believes that our performance
and future success depend on the factors discussed below, those mentioned in the section titled “Risk Factors” and
elsewhere in this document.

Investment in Research & Development (R&D), Innovation and Technology

The continued development of rainfall generation technology requires substantial ongoing investment in resources and technology infrastructure. We intend to capitalize on approximately 70 years of technological efforts beginning in the 1950s at one of the largest industrial conglomerates in the United States. Ionization rainfall generation technology has been used for fog dissipation during the cold war, as well as rainfall generation and hail reduction in a number of locales over the decades. In order to effectively commercialize and scale existing rainfall generation technology, we will need to invest in additional technologies to optimize the performance of the systems. This includes investment and development of weather forecasting models, computing power, data collection tools and potentially ground-based radar networks, among other things, in order to improve RET’s weather forecasting abilities.

RET expects to be able to deploy its systems in the field by the first half of 2025. Each system that will be installed includes, among its key components, an antenna, high-voltage generator, high-voltage cable, power generation and rain gauges.

Previous third-party trials of rain generation technology in Oman and Australia included local support personnel to operate the device when the weather conditions were conducive to enhancing rain in the target regions. These trials also included manual reading of rain gauges, and manual calculation of the statistics derived from the rain gauge and weather data. This manual process is time-consuming and difficult to scale given the level of involvement that individuals must have with each installed system.

As the number of systems in the field increases, therefore potentially enhancing rainfall in more regions, RET intends to automate these processes to scale its business, including through externally operating the systems it installs for clients, integrating rain and snow gauge data (both public and third-party private data) and collecting hyperlocal near real-time weather data to better forecast conditions suitable to maximize rain generation. The current design of the rain generation system is well suited for private land with terrain that includes areas with prevailing winds in a favorable direction, and naturally occurring updrafts that help carry the ion plume into the cloud layer, including high-altitude areas, such as hills and cliffs, with strong