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Remember the project where Bill Gates wanted to cover the sun to cool the Earth? Well, this summer, the tests will begin. According to The Times, a large balloon will soon be launched in Sweden that will spew out particles of calcium carbonate, which is essentially “chalk dust.”
The Controlled Stratospheric Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) wants to prove that the release of this dust into the stratosphere could eventually divert some of the sun's energy and lower the temperatures of our planet.
The balloon will be launched near the Arctic city of Kiruna, and it would be the first serious attempt to test whether global warming can be kept under control by dimming the sunlight.
originally posted by: doorhandle
When did Bill get so hated and become this Dr Evil Bond villain? He's got more money then he can possibly use himself and has openly said he wants to give most if not all of it away. Would you all rather he kept in the bank or help fund technology that might actually help future generations?
Besides, are you guys thinking he's actually involved with this? 'He's' (i.e. some organisation he's probably chair of) is helping fund the research, he's not personally doing the research, and he's not actually going to be standing on some hill with a giant leaf blower device pumping nano things into the sky. Give him a bit of slack guys.