.- The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates has proposed a new project in order to reduce global warming.
The project proposes dumping tons of non-toxic calcium carbonate powder into the atmosphere to mitigate sunlight, thus cooling the Earth and counteracting the effects of global warming.
The ambitious geoengineering project is launched by scientists from Harvard University and according to the media, Gates will be the one who will finance it.
Various investigations related to solar geoengineering have stalled in recent years, mainly due to controversy over the unpredictable risks that would cause when applied on a large scale.
But facing the problem of climate change, the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) plans to further study the feasibility of spraying calcium carbonate (CaCO 3 ) dust into the atmosphere by means of balloons.
Gates’ new challenge is to control the rise in Earth’s temperature, which could reach a critical tipping point in 20 to 30 years.
Investigation Steps
The first step of the SCoPEx investigation will take place in June this year near the city of Kiruna in Sweden. There the Swedish Space Corporation will launch a balloon with scientific equipment 20 km high.
This launch will not release the CaCO 3 dust into the atmosphere, but will serve as a test to maneuver the balloon and examine communications and operating systems.
If successful, the research could move on to its second experimental stage to release a small amount of stratospheric aerosols.
The second experimental stage would try to release a small quantity of the compound that has been used in the first phase.
Apparently, this is not the only environmental project supported by Bill Gates, as the billionaire has acquired 242,000 acres of land in the US.
Thus, it has thus become the largest private farmland owner in that country.
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