Geoengineering
topic on 6 shows · 11 statements across 9 episodes
the Knowledge Project 
Masters of Scale 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
Capital Allocators 
Catalyst 
the Green Blueprint
11 statements about Geoengineering, every show
Multiple VC-backed startups are scaling geoengineering technologies
“There is a lot, there are many up-and-coming companies within the startup space that are VC-backed, that are exploring these technologies and wanting to bring them to scale.”
Schroepfer: Geoengineering to lock current temperatures costs ~$10B annually
“About ten billion a year to, like, lock in current, current temperatures.”
Reid Hoffman invests in nuclear fusion and supports geoengineering projects
“It's one of the reasons I invest in fusion, it's one of the reasons I support some people doing some geoengineering”
Visioni: Global bodies like White House and UN published geoengineering reports
“In the last year, there's been a lot of advances in bringing the conversation around geoengineering to a more global public, right? There's been plenty of reports from very influential places. The White House has had a report, the OSTP, the Office of Science, …”
Visioni: Planet-altering geoengineering deployment is extremely unlikely in next decade
“Whatever happens, we're not doing, we're not going to change the planet in the next decade. There, we just, there's no upside. There's, it's extremely unlikely.”
Nikhil Kamath: Geoengineering will become a massive industry before climate catastrophe
“But I think what will happen before this climate change inevitability that a lot of people prophesize is I think Geoengineering will become such a big field in itself.”
Surprise: Geoengineering researchers cannot control real-world technology deployment
“The experts who are researching this stuff are well-meaning and well-intentioned and are attempting to be very careful, but even with those safeguards that they're trying to impose on themselves, they are not going to have control over how this technology actu…”
Dr. Buck: Make Sunsets is a performance art stunt, not geoengineering
“I don't really see this effort as relating to geoengineering. Actually, like it's basically performance. You could call it performance art. I don't know if it meets the threshold of art, but it's more of like a performance that is meant to be. A provocation or…”
Geoengineering should be treated like emergency open-heart surgery for the climate
“Yeah, humans, there will probably be some consequences. So you should only pull out the, ah, the geoengineering, ah, fix if it's otherwise unmitigated disaster. Just like they wouldn't crack my chest open if I went into the emergency room with a hangnail. They…”
Kann: Solar will be the primary technology driving global decarbonization
“I continue to fundamentally believe that solar is going to be the bedrock of decarbonization. Put another way, if you ask me what single technology will do the most to mitigate climate change, short of some potential geoengineering or nuclear fusion future, my…”