A Mysterious Startup Is Developing a New Form of Solar Geoengineering | Stardust, an Israeli–US startup, intends to patent its unique aerosol technology for temporarily cooling the planet.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-mysterious-startup-is-developing-a-new-form-of-solar-geoengineering/

by silence7

12 comments

  1. *We don’t know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky.*

  2. Wouldn’t it be easier to stop burning fossil fuels?

  3. Okay, on one hand we already have shoved enough CO2 into the atmosphere to cause problems. On the other hand this would wreck the ozone layer.

  5. “Israeli-US startup”… I am already running in the other direction! Mysterious too…

  6. > In his emailed statement, Yedvab confirmed the company is testing nonsulfate particles: “The ability to tailor particle properties to meet a broad set of requirements—safety, effectiveness, cost, and dispersibility—is a key advantage of our approach, giving it a distinct edge over sulfates and other candidate particles.”

    What’s to stop the government from siezing the patent under eminent domain if it really is effective, safe and affordable?

  7. Those things mask the climate effect. As soon as you stop, everything that has been masked comes out in the full, again.

    Imagine a super large country votes for an useless leader and that useless leader stops everything that contains the word “environment”. BLAM the climate effect that has been masked, is back.

    It could be super interesting to spread some kind of airborne Algae that takes CO2 in and produce O2. That would have a lasting effect at least.

  8. Given the United States position on climate change this is likely to be an inevitability. We’re going to need to deploy solar radiation management and CCS of all kinds although algae seeding is the cheapest and pretty fast.

  9. The Earth’s temperature is cooling but the sky is permanently white and my lungs are bleeding from inhaling aerosols constantly. Sounds like the future I was for my kids.

  11. This might be the dumbest idea ever. There is literally no way to gauge the real impact until it’s done and it would literally be experimenting with human existence.

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