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by andyjsong 3y ago
> Dr. David W. Fahey, Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Chemical Sciences Laboratory revealed that studies show sulfur aerosols from stratospheric aerosol injection could impact the ozone layer, but not ca
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by andyjsong 3y ago
As a co-founder of Make Sunsets, I'd like to clarify the role of SO2 in climate control. SO2 is considered "easily removable" because, when combined with water, it forms sulfuric acid and precipitates out. This mechanism part
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by andyjsong 3y ago
OP here, I'd really like to understand why people are writing these comments. Is anyone willing to hop on a video call and stop hiding behind their keyboards? Here's a link to do just that: https://calendly.com/and
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We Can Already Stop Climate Change If We Want To(unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
13 points by andyjsong 3y ago|4 comments
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by andyjsong 3y ago
Maybe: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/philhaslett_tendies-activity-...
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Stratospheric Aerosol Injected(youtube.com)
1 points by andyjsong 3y ago|1 comments
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by andyjsong 3y ago
This one balloon releasing reflective clouds in the stratosphere is the equivalent of 38,636 fully-grown trees that last for a year.
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Make Sunsets Called Out by Jefferies Group on the Future of Climate Investing(insights.jefferies.com)
1 points by andyjsong 3y ago|0 comments
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by andyjsong 3y ago
That sounds about right, I took a domestic flight from SFO to PSP this week. I had a full-sized tube of toothpaste going there, with no issues, and they took it away coming back.
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Stratospheric Aerosol Injection(ft.com)
2 points by andyjsong 3y ago|1 comments
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by andyjsong 3y ago
Co-founder of Make Sunsets here, check out our FAQ which answers all your questions: https://makesunsets.com/pages/faq
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Should we reflect sunlight to cool the planet?(youtube.com)
1 points by andyjsong 3y ago|0 comments
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by andyjsong 3y ago
Yes, more trees, but still not enough, here is a handy guide on the different solutions and consequences: https://www.roadto10gigatons.com/
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by andyjsong 3y ago
Carbon sequestration is promising, but still years away. We need to start looking at stop gap solutions that buy us more time.
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by andyjsong 4y ago
I wish you were right, that people would actually come together and get things done. But again... more people are worried about if they can feed their families than catastrophic climate events might happen in the future. Global warming is s
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by andyjsong 4y ago
Just read some academic papers and realize that anything we're doing right now to reverse global is a little too late. CDR, DAC, fusion, planting trees, solar, wind, nuclear, and nations coming together to decide we need to deploy stra
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by andyjsong 4y ago
Correct, completely insignificant, this is our "hello world" deployment, but we're pushing to prod and skipping staging. As more people buy, we will increase our payload and measure what we can. It's extreme, but if you
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by andyjsong 4y ago
We deploy 20km up. We spoke with people at Project Loon and the only orgs that are in that space is the military and they don't want you to know they're up there.
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by andyjsong 4y ago
Also, Luke is not a Mexican, he's as gringo as they come, but he's learning to speak Spanish.
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by andyjsong 4y ago
Andrew Song, Co-Founder of Make Sunsets here. > Why did they choose Mexico? They couldn't get away with it in the US, so it's ok to do experiments with the atmosephere of the people of Mexico? After they were forced to stop, We
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by andyjsong 4y ago
atmosphere yes, but we're deploying in the stratosphere (20km up) and the only other entities up there are the military, and they will work around you because they don't want you to know they're there when speaking with the f
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by andyjsong 4y ago
Actually, it's working with scientists that are open to supporting our efforts publically. We're speaking to several leading scientists at the moment supporting what we're trying to do, but they are afraid of the scorn they&#
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by andyjsong 4y ago
>At a guess: nobody thought to make a law against it yet and/or nobody with power has yet tried to apply an existing law to it. This was the most surprising thing we discovered, it's the wild west. The closest thing we found wa
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by andyjsong 4y ago
>I wonder how much funding something like that would have gotten without the founder's connections to YC. Probably $0 if you didn't have his background. 100% he got funding because he went through YC twice and was the Director
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by andyjsong 4y ago
Here's the science and math: https://makesunsets.com/blogs/news/calculating-cooling Efficacy and the benefit:harm ratio is still to be determined until we scale up our deployments, but here is a lecture by Da
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by andyjsong 4y ago
Correct, James Temple interviewed us directly, other publications are just regurgitating him.
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by andyjsong 4y ago
It's like being the first monkey in space. You're standing on the shoulders of giants.
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by andyjsong 4y ago
We were.
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Startup releasing particles into the atmosphere to tweak the climate(technologyreview.com)
35 points by andyjsong 4y ago|9 comments
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by andyjsong 4y ago
Even if the hacker was able to start an Okta competitor with their source code, how many companies would actually buy it? Who would maintain it? Or am I missing something here, what would they use the source code for?

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