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Title: Time to start building Snowpiercer
Post by: Blast on January 07, 2023, 09:08:41 AM
A startup claims it has launched weather balloons that may have released reflective sulfur particles in the stratosphere, potentially crossing a controversial barrier in the field of solar geoengineering.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/24/1066041/a-startup-says-its-begun-releasing-particles-into-the-atmosphere-in-an-effort-to-tweak-the-climate/
-Blast
Title: Re: Time to start building Snowpiercer
Post by: majorhavoc on January 07, 2023, 09:23:22 AM
I love the smell of sulfur particles in the morning.  Smells like the apocalypse.
Title: Re: Time to start building Snowpiercer
Post by: echo83 on January 08, 2023, 11:07:03 AM
"We joke slash not joke that this is partly a company and partly a cult," he says.

Sure buddy. See who's laughing when you're eating cockroach jelly bars in the back of the train with the rest of the peasants.

"What I want to do is create as much cooling as quickly as I responsibly can, over the rest of my life, frankly," Iseman says, adding later that they will deploy as much sulfur in 2023 as "we can get customers to pay us" for.

This dude is one black turtleneck and a cat away from being a pretty compelling Bond villain.
Title: Re: Time to start building Snowpiercer
Post by: NT2C on January 08, 2023, 04:25:11 PM
Quote from: echo83 on January 08, 2023, 11:07:03 AM"We joke slash not joke that this is partly a company and partly a cult," he says.

Sure buddy. See who's laughing when you're eating cockroach jelly bars in the back of the train with the rest of the peasants.

"What I want to do is create as much cooling as quickly as I responsibly can, over the rest of my life, frankly," Iseman says, adding later that they will deploy as much sulfur in 2023 as "we can get customers to pay us" for.

This dude is one black turtleneck and a cat away from being a pretty compelling Bond villain.
This is the same guy who was converting shipping containers into affordable houses.  I used to know his grandfather.  (we grew up in the same neighborhood and were in the same garage band in the 60s, guy sold me my first bass guitar)