Yedvab: Safe geoengineering alternatives reduce the risk of rogue deployments
Yanai Yedvab · Inside the most sophisticated plan for solar geoengineering · Jul 1, 2026 · at 29:09
Stardust CEO Yanai Yedvab explains the rationale for building engineered solar geoengineering particles to Shayle Kann.
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“I believe that having a safe option essentially lowers the risk That people will go the wrong way because there is an alternative. Or to say it otherwise, if we didn't have options, I would say that the likelihood that someone would go the wrong way would be much higher.”
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