Andrew Song

Little heads up, this is, we'll have to be careful walking.

It's actually the roof of a container at my friend's warehouse around the corner.

Right.

It sounds crazy, and I'll be the first to agree that this should not be a private company doing this.

But the only thing worse than a private company doing this is no one doing this at all.

I think I'm no more or less qualified to do geoengineering than anyone else who does geoengineering by getting onto a plane or turning on their gas-burning vehicle.

We just don't call, or scientists try not to call those things geoengineering because we're just used to them.

Mother Nature, it turns out, doesn't really care about our intentions at all.

It's geoengineering whether we're helping or hurting the planet, whether we're warming or cooling the planet, it's still geoengineering.

In it, a billionaire gas station owner in Texas appropriately builds the biggest gun in the world to shoot canisters that then turn into engines that burn sulfur in the stratosphere.

And complications ensue, to put it mildly.

Yeah, it is.

You're not wrong.

It's probably like a 20-syllable German word for this feeling.

But as I'm listening to the audiobook of this, I'm realizing that I'm going to have to dig into this a lot more.

The more I learned, the more I became convinced that there wasn't any good reason we weren't doing this.

It was just that nobody had done it.

We've raised enough venture capital that we can do this full time.

We're about halfway to break even in terms of revenue from cooling credits versus our costs.

So first goal is to get to where we're profitable so that we can continue doing this forever and scale up.