Rather than plunge money in a couple of girlfriends his daughter’s age, Bill Gates’s retirement money sure is being put to good use, with his most recent investment being in machines that turn seawater into climate-changing artificial clouds.
His $US300,000 will hopefully go a long way in Silver Lining’s project, potentially knocking climate change on its head if the machines can actually produce these artificial clouds. The machines work by sucking up seawater in vast quantities (10 tons a second), turning the water into minute particles that are then flown through the air some 914m high. High enough to increase cloud density, Silver Lining is hoping.
The project will begin with just 10 ships covering 9842sqkm of sea, and if it’s successful Silver Lining will have to start hitting up more tech company founders as it’d take 1900 ships and a further $US7 billion to actually stop climate change for good.
How about that Steve Jobs, Silver Lining? He’s worth a few bob, isn’t he? [The Times via Inhabitat via Slashdot]
Captain Pajama Shark
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 10:42 AMIs THIS Bluebird?
James-Mac
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 1:19 PMWhat are they doing with all the salt?
Rizzo
Monday, June 14, 2010 at 1:34 PMTHis wasn’t actually invented to STOP climate change. The only reason it was thought of was to halt the effects for a while until we get our act together and reduce our green house gas emissions. Its just buying us time. So don’t forget to only take 4min showers and all of that.
Sajjad Bashir
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 8:57 PMThat is amazing involution, i really like that
i hope that may can see this
Entilzha
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 2:46 PMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming#Causes_and_effects
Read this, then tell me how putting more clouds up in the atmosphere is going to help.