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Three more balloons reached the stratosphere to offset the warming caused by 4,020 tons of CO2 for a year. This is the equivalent of masking the warming caused by 873 US gas-powered cars for a year. Or the equivalent cooling of 191,428 trees that last for a year.
Note:
@CBC
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We delivered 4,125 ton-years of cooling today with three balloons which is the equivalent of planting 196,428 trees that last for a year.
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The OG delivery vehicle for stratospheric aerosol injection just popped off today.
🌋
#RuangVolcano
has erupted, sending SO2 into the stratosphere, mimicking what geoengineers propose with aerosol injections! 🌍💨
This natural event offers a real-time glimpse into how
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Big thanks to all the people who came out today to help us cool Earth. This was the third balloon with a payload 1,030 grams of SO2. It's still traveling to the stratosphere and if reached will be the equivalent of planting 49,047 trees that last for a year.
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Picture this: A single dollar bill's weight and cost in SO2 deployed in the stratosphere can offset the heat of a ton of CO2 for an entire year.
This strikingly affordable and straightforward remedy is your chance to make a significant, hands-on impact in the fight against
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ngl, pretty wild that this company is VC backed and people are paying us to deploy SO2 into the stratosphere. Y'all are wild.
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🚨🌎 Here’s a thought: instead of climate scientists sounding the alarm about the 1.5°C tipping point target again and again and again… maybe we should do something about it?
#climateaction
#science
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Two balloons were launched today in California. Both balloons reached the stratosphere and offset the warming of 2,820 tons of CO2 for a year.
This is the equivalent of 134,285 mature trees that last for a year.
1st Balloon: 1,710 Cooling Credits deployed at 35,060 meters
2nd
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@powerbottomdad1
Thank you
@powerbottomdad1
! In honor of your support to help cool Earth and being awesome, we've discounted Cooling Credits till 4/20 using the code: 'PBD'
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Just add SO2, lift gas and put it in the stratosphere and you get the cooling effect of 190,472 trees that last for a year.
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We make reflective clouds in the stratosphere to address global warming, and can do it for you too!
One cooling credit cools Earth by a ton of CO₂’s warming for a year
Our subscribers pay a dollar per credit
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Kinda wild that 25+ people took time out of their day to watch us inflate weather balloons filled with sulfur dioxide (SO2) and helium, then hand off to kids and one kid at heart to release SO2 into the stratosphere to cool Earth.
Y'all are a fun bunch.
Thank you.
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Nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy” you were
- how many hours you worked
People will remember:
- how much SO2 you put into the stratosphere to cool Earth
Nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy” you were
- how many hours you worked
People will remember:
- how many satellites you've launched
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🌅🧴🌍Imagine using sunscreen for the planet to combat climate change! With emerging geoengineering solutions like Stratospheric Aerosol Injection, we can cool Earth temporarily until humanity can transition off fossil fuels and scale up carbon removal. How interested would you
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Yesterday, we deployed three balloons with a total payload of 6,075 grams of sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the stratosphere, decoupling the warming of 6,075 tons of CO2 for a year. 🌍
🌳That’s like planting 289,285 trees that last for a year! 🌳
Bonus: We made history with the
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How it started: 12/24/22
How it's going: 10/1/23
2024 is gonna be wild.
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We had the youngest person (7 years old) ever to cool Earth by stratospheric aerosol injection this week. She deployed 680 Cooling Credits, equivalent to planting 32,380 trees that last for a year.
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We had a five-year-old* princess 👸 deliver 890 ton-years of cooling into the stratosphere (100,755 feet) for a year on 9/14/24.
This was the first of three balloons. The SO2 delivered into the stratosphere is equivalent to the cooling effect of 42,380 trees that last for a
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@39_sukhoi
The US Government would totally buy that, the radar signature of balloons is pretty tough to detect. The Chinese balloons you might have read in the news were able to get deep into US territory before the F-22s shot them down. They were the size of stadiums. Currently, our
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All three made it into the stratosphere and we got LoRa working.
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@o0ragman0o
1. Thanks for the feedback. We've been clearly struggling with how to communicate this. Another way that might make more sense. We've neutralized the warming effect caused by the emissions of 8,676 ICE cars for a year assuming each car emits 4.6 tons/year. And we didn't need to
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The balloon released only a few grams of SO2, but the act was a brazen demonstration of something long considered taboo—injecting gases into the stratosphere to try to slow global warming. Once released, SO2 reacts with water vapor to form droplets that become suspended in the
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@rogue_node
Or hear me out, we can do both. Planting 49,000 trees takes a while. This took less than 20 minutes to deploy and another 3 hours to get to the stratosphere.
@yishan
is heading up the tree planting, we'll give the world some sunscreen so we reduce the forests from burning and
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Zeke we should chat, as you know our deployment sizes are insignificant from a geophysical impact, but, more people know about stratospheric aerosol injection than they did 18 months ago because of us building in the open and talking to the press, warts, and all.
We would love
@geoengineering1
I think selling cooling credits to offset the warming associated with fossil CO2 emissions is the definition of moral hazard and a terrible idea no matter how you slice it.
We need more research on SRM, but trying to commercialize it today is a terrible idea.
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LFG.
The real secret of of global warming is that the climate can be whatever humanity wants it to be. Two dozen nations could each single-handedly send us all into an ice age.
The right often frames us as hardly capable of significant impact on climate, a mistake. Own it. We can
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We should chat.
It would be great if somebody/somenation would modify the climate in some way they desire so everyone can at least stop arguing that it can't be done and, instead, argue about what climate is best overall.
Ideally someone disliked by popular media, to ensure coverage.
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Come join us at the next launch for customers!
Watched
@MakeSunsets
launch ~3kg of SO2 into the stratosphere today (equivalent cooling of removing 3000 tons of CO2 for a year)
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@o0ragman0o
1. Thanks for the feedback. We've been clearly struggling with how to communicate this. Another way that might make more sense. We've neutralized the warming effect caused by the emissions of 8,676 ICE cars for a year assuming each car emits 4.6 tons/year. And we didn't need to
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or we spend 10-20 billion yearly to drop temps back to preindustrial levels...
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Guest post from
@ASong408
on
2024 is the hottest year on record, and it's been hotter than 2023 in part because of a global ban on shipping fuels containing sulfur dioxide.
Problem: SO2 causes acid rain, but it cools the globe. How can we just stay cool?
A new company might have found the solution.
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🥈 and soon to be 🥇
Help us deliver more cooling this year than Exomad Green for $1/ton-year:
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People freak out about stratospheric aerosol injection causing acid rain, but to give you an idea of the amount of sulfur dioxide needed to cool Earth mixed with the water vapor in the stratosphere. Injecting 21M tons of SO2 into the stratosphere scaled down is 1 drop (50ml) of
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🥹
@MakeSunsets
@ashleevance
Been following your work from the start, love the energy. Posted your dope FAQ to a bunch of group chats!
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts on our approach to stratospheric aerosol injection as a service these past few days. One of the common questions that popped up in discussion is our ability to scale up our deployments.
For some context, we started this company from a cold
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As
#ClimateWeek
kicks off in NYC, it's great to see people talking about climate action. But remember—talking is good, actually doing it is better.
A little flashback: during SF Climate Week, our event was banned because we wanted to release balloons with chalk dust to
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And this is why we need Stratospheric Aerosol Injection.
Basically, there’s this thing called carbon removal - different from avoided emissions. A decade or so ago, climate models couldn't pencil a path to keeping warming at or below 1.5°C without it, so they started adding it in to make the math work. Entrepreneuers & climate folks...
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Tailpipe Indulgences by Make Sunsets
A bumper sticker for your gas/diesel cars that neutralize your tailpipe emissions for a year. The average US car produces 4.6 tons of CO2 per year.
For $46, you can flex on all the Teslas.
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So far we're the only game in town. Who wants to join us to cool Earth down?
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Thank you
@vpro
for documenting our latest stratospheric aerosol injection deployment to cool Earth.
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Hi Dr. Rohde, we appreciate the feedback, great minds think alike. That's why for people who want to commit to cooling Earth we offer a monthly subscription, where for $10/month, you get 10 Cooling Credits which cools the warming of 10 tons of carbon for a year.
Every year you emit carbon, the necessary number of offsets grows, and that debt will outlive you.
Unless you are basically setting up a trust fund to keep buying sulfur forever, personal investments in sulfur geoengineering offsets are mostly going to just be virtue signaling.
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@geoffreydgraham
We need to only diffuse 1-2% of the sun's energy to get the intended cooling effect. Fun fact, our method increases crop yield due to diffusion of light and CO2 fertilization:
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@theshy08746434
Only if it's deployed in the stratosphere. Some private jets at higher latitudes can go into the stratosphere. But most commercial airlines fly in the troposphere. But maybe
@boomaero
can help us cool Earth when they are making commercial flights.
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Sneak peek of the collab we've been working on with
@tomaspueyo
. Subscribe to his newsletter to get it in your inbox tomorrow
#coolEarth
Global warming is accelerating
There's only one thing we can do today to delay it before we burn, enough to solve the pbm: SO2 injection
Some ppl are squeamish about it but they shouldn't be. SO2 is so obviously the right solution that we should do it now. Here's why:
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T-Minus 4 days until we launch over 2,500 grams of SO2 into the stratosphere over Northern California for our customers. Our biggest yet!
If you want to have the coolest Thanksgiving topic to share at the table, order before November 19th at 8AM PST with the link below.
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Testing out new telemetry, launched one yesterday and it reached the stratosphere at 20,663 meters.
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Or launch 3.75kg of sulfur dioxide that reaches the stratosphere every year until we scale up sustainable aviation fuel.
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@LouisVArge
It's a new thing and it's breaking their brains. They seem smart, so let's give them some time to come around. I really appreciate their passion on the issue. We need more people to question what we're doing and keeping us honest. What we're doing is going to affect everyone on
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@kristovatlas
We call them climate dads:
people with STEM backgrounds, well-read, have young children, talk about heat pumps, they realize we're not doing enough, and want to support projects like ours trying to make a direct impact. So far over 610+ have joined the cause.
@CJHandmer
is a
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Just found out that instead of releasing sulfur emissions into the air, ships are now dumping them in the ocean 🤦.
It's like we've gone from accidentally eating sunscreen, hoping it would protect our skin, to injecting it directly into our veins!
Pre-IMO 2020, we were
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In our first full calendar year of operation, we achieved the equivalent of neutralizing the warming caused by 1,964 ICE cars for a year. And we didn't need to block roadways doing it.
Here is our end-of-the-year 2023 monthly update where we share how much money we have in our
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@alex33902241
We are in full compliance with the law, we issue a NOTAM to the FAA before we launch our balloons and file a report to NOAA once a year and this falls under the Weather Modification Act which includes things like cloud seeding using silver iodide to make it rain. EPA does not
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On the front page of
@FT
Could a giant space mirror solve our climate woes? The idea of cooling the Earth by reflecting some of the sun’s rays back into space is gaining mainstream traction as emissions remain stubbornly high
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We are going to deploy one more time before the end of the month! If you want to get your Cooling Credits order fulfilled in less than 24 hours, purchase now before 9am PST tomorrow (8/27):
@business
will be there to document the deployment
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@DrGW0
@hausfath
@GretaThunberg
0.5C or ~0.9F doesn't seem like a lot, but imagine your body temperature at 99.1F with normal body temp being 98.6F. If it gets hotter, you'll have a fever. We're on track for a fever.
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@marginletter
@ATabarrok
Volcanos where coconut trees (Philippines) live caused a big boom in 1991. Big boom had sunscreen in it which is called sulfur dioxide (SO2) and sent it 825 coconut trees high and cooled Earth by 0.9F. If SO2 goes that high it lasts longer (1-3 years) than a smaller boom
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TIL G Dub is a sulfur bro.
It baffles me that the only president to ever speak publicly about the increased warming from reduced sulfur emissions was George W. Bush.
On 6/11/2001.
Scientists, journalists and policy makers keep hiding the truth because they believe the public can't handle it.
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I'm going to post this again, but focus on founders who read my posts because the analytics tell me that's who's reading my posts. So the rest of you, please keep scrolling...
I think there was a weak signal in Product Market Fit and I need your help.
For the last 12 months,
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How You Can Easily Delay Climate Change Today: SO2 Injection
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Gabriel gets it.
@algekalipso
best case scenario:
1. companies performing high-atmosphere SO2 releases like
@MakeSunsets
scale up and provide necessary interim cooling to prevent total arctic collapses
2. we fully transition to solar + nuclear
3. carbon capture tech scales up to reverse previous damage
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@imhavoc
You're almost right, we need to get the SO2 higher (stratosphere) to copy what stratovolcanos do to cool Earth. Here's a blog approaching it from first principles on why altitude and quantity matter
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Ever wonder how much money we have, revenue, burn, and progress? Here's our latest blog post we've been doing since the inception of the company:
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Spraying salt at clouds vs. SO2 in the stratosphere to cool Earth and buy us more time
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Little known fact, this song is actually about putting SO2 from the troposphere into the stratosphere to cool Earth to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption that cooled the Earth by 0.9F (0.5C) for over a year.
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If people are curious about what metric Make Sunsets is trying to directly influence, take a look at this graph:
It tracks the amount of the monthly imbalance of the energy that the Earth receives from the Sun compared to the energy that it radiates back
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This is why transparency is key. We share how much money we have in the bank, burn, runway, revenue, wins, failures, struggles, and what we're working on next month on our monthly newsletter and blog, here is the latest one:
Every successful movement that is based on ideals is at risk of being taken over by crooks who can simulate having the ideals better than any rational and well intentioned human being.
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@SunWeatherMan
Nah, we don't need your money. There isn't a single peer-reviewed study that comprehensively debunks the collective impact of solar activity, space weather, and Earth's magnetic field changes on climate while solely attributing climate change to human activities. However, the
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we call this the three pronged attack:
@Andy_Scollick
@NickCowern
@djspratt
I admire your zeal and commitment. But emission reductions are now insufficient.
We need a triad approach - sharper emission reductions AND carbon removal AND geoengineering. I am all for faster emission reductions but we need the other two legs as well
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A startup says it’s begun releasing particles into the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate
#climatechange
#SAI
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Great video graphics from
@FT
describing stratospheric aerosol injection. Some reactions
1:44 SRM is likely to have a net climate benefit despite potential side effects, given the severity of ongoing climate breakdown.
1:52 Whitening the sky is a minor tradeoff compared to the
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@JsonBasedman
Yes, 20+ times now for our customers. Here is one happy customer writing about us:
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Any billionaires want to help us cool Earth?
In
@TIME
magazine for the third time in less than a year.
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@SimplyDionysus
The great news is that for SO2 to significantly harm the ozone layer, CFCs need to be present. SO2 acts as a catalyst in ozone-depleting reactions when CFCs or similar chemicals are around. Fortunately, humanity came together with the Montreal Protocol, which has greatly reduced
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@scottleibrand
@CJHandmer
@tomaspueyo
@ramez
We've already proven you can't get arrested for this and there are a non-negligible amount of extremely smart people who are giving us money and supporting the cause. We just have to keep winning hearts and minds. Give people some hope.
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