The dust will create a worldwide sunshade and reflect some of the rays and heat back out into space. The 63-year-old Microsoft founder is supporting the project, but scientists at Harvard University are also involved. Basically, he wants to lift tons of dust 12 miles above the surface of the earth and scatter it through the stratosphere. That also includes Bill Gates, and he is using some of his fortunes to prevent climate change in a unique way. The SCoPEx team is aiming to collect data to enhance computer models and has said it plans to release a nontoxic chemical, but not to scatter sunlight back into space.Most of us recognize that climate change is a serious problem. But there is no suggestion he is in favor of blocking all sunlight from reaching Earth. The Verdictīill Gates has provided undisclosed amounts of funding to academic research into solar geoengineering research, which in turn helps to fund the SCoPEx project. "Grants for research are provided to Harvard University from gifts made by Bill Gates from his personal funds," the Harvard University website has said, noting the activities of the grant fund are totally unrelated to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Snopes said SCoPEx is also financed by the Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (FICER), a fund for research grants co-created by Gates in 2007. SCoPEx is partially funded by Harvard's own Solar Geoengineering Research Program (SGRP), which lists Gates as one of its many philanthropic donors. Ultimately, Gates' involvement is financial. It will only test the balloon, not release any aerosols. The Swedish Space Corporation has agreed to help launch a balloon close to the town of Kiruna, Forbes reported. "We are not, for example, testing whether it's possible to scatter sunlight back to space, because there is no meaningful scientific uncertainty about that question." Calcium carbonate is a nontoxic chemical commonly found in nature. The team noted: "The test will pose no significant hazard to people or the environment. The data could improve the ability of computer models to predict how large-scale geoengineering may possibly disrupt out planet's ozone, the Harvard scientists explained. The ultimate aim is to measure how the aerosol alters stratospheric chemistry. The balloon will be used to measure resulting changes, including atmospheric chemistry. In a future test, the team is planning to use a high-altitude balloon to lift a package holding calcium carbonate approximately 20 km into the atmosphere.Ī small amount of the substance, between 100g to 2kg, will be released to create an air mass roughly one kilometer long and one hundred meters in diameter. Improved understanding of these processes will help answer applied questions such as, is it possible to find aerosols that can reduce or eliminate ozone loss, without increasing other physical risks?" "Instead, it will observe how particles interact with one another, with the background stratospheric air, and with solar and infrared radiation. "It is not a test of solar geoengineering per se," the SCoPEx website says on its website. SCoPEx said its ongoing experiment aims to improve computer models of solar geoengineering by obtaining some real-world data about how chemicals react in the skies. □- □□ No_EyeDee March 2, 2021īut the SCoPEx website says the current project's scope remains limited. #BillGates is buying out all of the farmlands and trying to figure out ways to block out the SUN for THREE DAYS!!! Meanwhile China is building a generator as a second sun.
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