Theoretically, rogue billionaires could afford to at least start changing the climate on their own. That’s the premise of the science fiction novel “Termination Shock,” which inspired Iseman to found Make Sunsets in 2022.
Dystopian sci-fi isn’t something you’re supposed to imitate.
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Iseman said to also be working on a new tech from the book ‘Please don’t build the torment nexus,’ saying it just sounds neat!
Energy from the Sun can be captured and used to do useful work. Heat that is already present in the atmosphere is waste heat and cannot.
They never studied basic thermodynamics, or they forgot what they learned, but they think that they can be trusted with the future of the entire planet.
Uh… doesn’t S02 turn into sulfuric acid in the atmosphere…? We, uh, used to have this thing we called “acid rain”, it was killing forests and shit so we had to do something about it.
B-b-but when we stopped pollut- I mean geoengineering with SO2 emmissions from shipping vessels the seas got hotter, so clearly more po- geoengineering is necessary and profitable
Surely they won’t fuck this up
ugh. atmosphere hijinks. Im fine with space shades. Heck preferably collect the solar energy and beam it as energy. Easy enough to reverse but aerosols are just more hole digging.
I suspect that this won’t work out but those in charge will somehow end up creating the sonnengewehr.
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