A great update on the best way to scale up solar radiation management. Keep a lid on extreme temperatures, stabilize the ice sheets, bring down CO2, avoid deleting all the coastlines.
In 1991, a volcano cooled the whole planet by ~0.5Β°C β by accident. We could do it on purpose for ~$45B: sulfur dioxide lofted by one-way balloons, watched by a swarm of 160 satellites. I'm an aerospace engineer, and here's the first-principles case tπ§΅
Then spend those savings on the best eyes we can build: a 160-satellite constellation measuring stratospheric sulfur worldwide, ~90 times a day, with the data fed into climate models as open data.
Interactive 3D visualizer π skywatch-constellation.verceβ¦
One of the benefits of owning your own business is that all of your books are tax deductible as research expenses.
One of the downsides is that all your books are tax deductible, and thus you buy them with even more reckless abandon.