Additionally, that article focuses almost solely on the chances of producing acid rain, which actually is another issue and not the one I was first concerned with. That piece talks about "redistributing" SO2 from the troposphere to the stratosphere which is a neat concept but a.) that's purely theoretical, and b.) that's not what they are doing or trying to do anyway.

It could be argued that air pollution has a greater and more devastating effect on the everyday lives of people alive today then global warming does now or will in the foreseeable future. In my city it was estimated that more than 1 in every ~16 deaths is related to air pollution, and the air here isn't nearly as bad as it is in other cities. Worldwide, UNICEF estimates nearly 2,000 deaths under 5 years of age per day from air pollution [0]. Annual deaths worldwide are estimated at 8+ million yearly across all age groups. Making that problem worse by any measure in the hope of producing a cooling effect that is a fraction of a fraction of a degree is not worth it at all and at least in my opinion is a net-negative.

[0]: https://ceh.unicef.org/spotlight-risk/air-pollution

I understand they are deploying to the stratosphere and not the troposphere but I can't imagine there aren't any negative second-order effects.

As someone who lives in a city with a major PM2.5 problem that effects the millions here on the daily (near an active stratovolcano no less!), reading about what they are doing was somewhat infuriating.

These seem like extremely solve-able problems.

I'm not entirely sure how that math works out, or why, because one would think it couldn't be that complicated. Maybe someone here knows more about this.

I've looked at e.g. gemini which seems to refuse to generate even the most mundane things without explanation, some chatgpt options, and runwayml, the last of which seemed to be the best option but appears to be ridiculously expensive. I think runwayml also is limited to like ~10 second videos maximum, I think? Which is not enough.

Anyone got any ideas?

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If anything it seems to me like we've just swapped coding with what is effectively a lot more code review (of whatever the LLM spits out), at the cost of also losing that long term understanding of a block of code that actually comes from writing it yourself (let's not pretend that a reviewer has the same depth of understanding of a piece of code as an author).

What was the scraper written in? Python? Node? Go?

Is there any real benefit to using one of those generators versus just writing all the HTML yourself?