In a worst-case scenario, blotting out the sun may be our only hope.
Bill Gates is a man who recently suggested the world should eat 100% synthetic beef, has argued that bitcoin is bad for the planet, co-founded Microsoft, and remains one of the richest people in the world.
from the Bill Gates-backed Harvard University Solar Geoengineering Research Program — which aims to evaluate the efficacy of blocking sunlight from reaching our planet's surface.However, the concept of solar geoengineering sounds dense. What is it, and why do people think it's necessary to fight climate change?Geoengineering refers generally to technologies capable of changing the Earth's physical qualities on the most colossal scales possible.
This is the catalyzing event for the 2013 film"Snowpiercer," where Earth has frozen into a lifeless snowball after attempts made to block sunlight went terribly wrong. The mechanism responsible for aerosol solar geoengineering is fairly simple, but, in reality, the physical structure of the particles themselves is more complex.
"We plan to use a high-altitude balloon to lift an instrument package approximately 20 km into the atmosphere. Once it's in place, a very small amount of material will be released to create a perturbed air mass roughly one kilometer long and one hundred meters in diameter," read."We will then use the same balloon to measure resulting changes in the perturbed air mass including changes in aerosol density, atmospheric chemistry, and light scattering.
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