<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 17, 2026 at 3:21 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 17/05/2026 03:23,</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
John Clark wrote:<br>
> Can Some Very Tiny Particles Cool the Planet? One Tech Company Says Yes.<br>
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> Stardust Solutions says its tiny spheres can reflect the sun’s rays without harming people or the environment. Critics say private companies have no business altering Earth’s atmosphere.</blockquote>
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I haven't read the article (NYT site doesn't work for me),</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>That's weird. Tri<span class="gmail_default" style="">y</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> it</span> again:<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/climate/stardust-solutions-geoengineering-cooling-earth.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iVA.djDr.uOfAGVb-_JH-&smid=em-share" target="_blank"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/climate/stardust-solutions-geoengineering-cooling-earth.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iVA.djDr.uOfAGVb-_JH-&smid=em-share</b></font></a></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>but the usual problem with this kind of thing is simply the scale.<br></i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>The company claims it would cost about $10 billion and take several years to put 10 million tons of biodegradable reflective particles into the stratosphere, and that would cool the <span class="gmail_default" style="">lower </span>atmosphere by 1.5 degrees Celsius<span class="gmail_default" style="">. I think it's worth a try. </span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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