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Posted on 04/24/2025 2:33:38 PM PDT by bitt
Make Sunsets, sells “cooling credits," which pay to launch weather balloons made of biodegradable latex containing hydrogen and sulfur dioxide.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is demanding a company that deliberately sends sulfur dioxide into the air to combat global warming provide detailed information on its practices. Critics of the practice, which is called geoengineering, say it puts potentially harmful pollutants into the air and needs more oversight.
The company Zeldin is scrutinizing, Make Sunsets, sells “cooling credits.” The credits pay to launch weather balloons made of biodegradable latex containing hydrogen and sulfur dioxide. According to the company, each $5 credit it sells offsets the warming impact of one ton of carbon dioxide for one year.
Last year, the company posted on its X account videos of balloon launches. According to the Make Sunsets website, the company has sold 125,717 “cooling credits” since February 2023, delivered by 147 balloons. As the balloon rises, the decreasing air pressure causes it to burst. They try to make the balloon burst above 66,000 feet, upon which they issue the “cooling credits.”
Worldwide interest Make Sunsets was founded by entrepreneur Luke Iseman and former account executive Andrew Song. The company is backed by venture capitalists Boost VC, Draper Associates, Pioneer Fund and unnamed “angel investors.”
The company isn’t the only company looking at various approaches to geoengineering, nor is it a new concept. More than a decade ago, billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates was lobbying governments and international organizations to back research into how sulfur dioxide could be used to counteract global warming.
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F them and their purposeful pollution. They should be sued into oblivion in a class action lawsuit with every person on earth being a class member
It smells like farts ...
STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!
Comes back as acid rain.
balloon launch:
https://x.com/MakeSunsets/status/1906712341112332797
X acct: https://x.com/MakeSunsets
Your tax dollars at work...
What a racket.
I should as folks to pay me 10 bucks NOT to eat a can of beans.
The amount of gas released by these balloons compared to the volume of the atmosphere is absolutely trivial.
As the industrial output since the 1800s can’t change the climate, these feeble gestures certainly cannot.
Where do the tax credits come from?
This seems like a horrible idea.
It looks like credits are just the company’s description of what customers pay for, not anything to do w/taxpayer dollars.
So “credits” simply equate to a certain amount of gas released. When they sell enough to fill a balloon, they fill it and launch it.
Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) plus water (H2O) yields H2SO3 = Sulfurous Acid. Add another O and you get H2SO4 = Sulfuric acid.
What are these a$$holes thinking of?
I'm pretty sure PT Barnum addressed this very issue ages ago.. d;^)
Global cooling in the Middle Ages caused massive crop failures and millions starved to death; same thing happened in the US mid 1800’s when that volcano exploded covering the Earth in a volcanic cloud. Now yet these idiots want to accomplish the same thing
SO2 + H2O ⇌ HSO3- + H+
You’re right. It would be a disaster for forests.
Isn’t sulfur dioxide the reason for shutting down coal fired power plants? These people are truly evil.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Sounds like a scam where they are selling unregistered securities
How much money are they getting from USAID or NGOs?
Insane
SO2 + H2O = sulphuric acid! I read about this sometime back as being promoted by Bill Gates and wondered whether he ever took chemistry. Then I believe someone who works for him may have suggested that wasn’t such a good idea after all.
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