It's 9:30 a.m., and Augustus Doricko, the mulleted 24-year-old founder of the cloud-seeding company Rainmaker, is clutching a coffee.
There's a long way to go before cloud seeding becomes a viable option for solving one of humanity's many self-made crises.
El Segundo, population 17,272, has long been a bastion of American engineering, home to aerospace and defense giants like Boeing and Raytheon.
Jett Lara for BIThe burning happens every Friday around 8 p.m. at a bonfire on El Segundo Beach.
One of Doricko's goals is to build a church in El Segundo to "share the grace of God with other people."
Persons:
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