A closely guarded plan to cool Earth is revealed

[rangerrebew]

A closely guarded plan to cool Earth is revealed
A geoengineering company would use tiny specks of silica to block sun rays — and make billions of dollars.

A passenger plane flies past the sun.
Stardust Solutions, a geoengineering company, outlined its technologies in six studies that the company plans to have peer-reviewed. | Ye Aung Thu/AFP via Getty Images

By Corbin Hiar
05/15/2026 09:00 AM EDT


A company that aims to make billions of dollars by cooling the Earth has lifted the veil of secrecy that until now has hidden its plans for preventing sunlight from overheating the planet.

It hinges on aerosol particles that are 125 times smaller than the tiniest grains of sand.

Stardust Solutions has raised $75 million since 2023 from investors who are betting that global warming could get so out of control that governments might decide to pay the Israeli-U.S. startup to spray millions of tons of sunlight-reflecting aerosols into the stratosphere. Its plans were so guarded that it required scientists to sign nondisclosure agreements before they could study its potentially planet-altering technologies.

On Thursday, the company revealed the makeup of its proprietary particles. They are made of what’s known as amorphous silica and are 0.5 microns in size — only visible with a microscope. The startup also shared information about the systems it could use to disperse the spherical silica particles some 11 miles above the ground and monitor them as they fall back to the Earth.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/15/a-closely-guarded-plan-to-cool-earth-is-revealed-00920438?cid=apn

[rangerrebew]

Why not use ground up deceased liberals?  They are obviously so DENSE the pieces would  out block any silica yet be incredibly light.

[Smokin Joe]

Sorry, but this is the only way to put this: F'n insanity.

They want to create the atmospheric equivalent of the K-T impact ejecta without the impact.

How many billions would die from a few years without crops?

[roamer_1]

Sorry, but this is the only way to put this: F'n insanity.

Bible prophecy somewhere makes the claim that 'they (people) would curse the sun that God made for them'... I always took that to mean things were going to get hot 

But all this climate change bullcrap puts a different spin on it, right?

[libertybele]

Sheer lunacy. 

[Smokin Joe]

Bible prophecy somewhere makes the claim that 'they (people) would curse the sun that God made for them'... I always took that to mean things were going to get hot 

But all this climate change bullcrap puts a different spin on it, right?

Imagine beeing able to see it, but not feel it.

Next question: What will this do to the visual acuity of planet based telescopes for astronomy?
If it reflects the sun, how badly will it diffuse incoming light from galaxies far, far away?
Will it end Earth-based astronomy?
Will it make detection of incoming (NEO) asteroids more difficult?

The dinosaurs didn't die of global warming, they died of the effects of a major (roughly 10 km diameter) cosmic impact.

[roamer_1]

Imagine beeing able to see it, but not feel it.

Next question: What will this do to the visual acuity of planet based telescopes for astronomy?
If it reflects the sun, how badly will it diffuse incoming light from galaxies far, far away?
Will it end Earth-based astronomy?
Will it make detection of incoming (NEO) asteroids more difficult?

The dinosaurs didn't die of global warming, they died of the effects of a major (roughly 10 km diameter) cosmic impact.

Satellite transmissions? What happens to SpaceX and all that?

Meh. It ought to be a non-starter. Rain will eventually fix it, but in the mean time (which may be decades), finding out you made a grave mistake would have a terrible toll.

Quit phukkin with it. You don't know what you are doing. 

 

[Bigun]

Satellite transmissions? What happens to SpaceX and all that?

Meh. It ought to be a non-starter. Rain will eventually fix it, but in the mean time (which may be decades), finding out you made a grave mistake would have a terrible toll.

Quit phukkin with it. You don't know what you are doing.