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Silicon Valley Startup's Rogue Effort To Cool Planet Met With Controversy

High up in the hills near Silicon Valley, a controversial mission involving a weather balloon will soon take flight.

(CBS Bay Area)

September 13, 2024

High up in the hills near Silicon Valley, a controversial mission involving a weather balloon will soon take flight.

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Inside a trailer on a blistering hot day, Luke Iseman and Andrew Song are busy preparing the instrumentation to attach to the balloon. Iseman and Song are the co-founders of a startup called Make Sunsets.

Song then went outside and unfurled a balloon and began to fill it up from two gas canisters.

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