Mexico cracks down on solar geoengineering
This isn't a Mexican company; the person behind it is.<p>> Luke Iseman, a serial inventor and the former director of hardware at Y Combinator ... he started tinkering with releasing sulfur dioxide particles into the atmosphere with balloons, raised venture capital to fund the startup, and brought on co-founder Andrew Song to manage sales.<p>Why did they choose Mexico? They couldn't get away with it in the US, so it's ok to do experiments with the atmosephere of the people of Mexico? After they were forced to stop,<p>> In a mea culpa blog post published on Wednesday, the startup acknowledged it had barged forward.<p>> "We appreciate the Mexican government's concern for protecting communities and the natural environment and support their call for scientific expertise and oversight of climate intervention activities. We also appreciate their concern for national and local engagement and regret that we had failed to take this into consideration sooner," Make Sunsets said.<p>Who believes that? Who would guess that the people of the community and country might want to control experiments in their atmosephere?