Pinatubo
Unilateral geoengineering, billed monthly. Cool your city for $9.99.
S25ActiveClimateHardwareSubscriptionIn 1991, Mount Pinatubo put 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere and cooled the planet by half a degree for two years. It did not convene a panel. It did not seek consensus. It shipped.
Pinatubo offers stratospheric aerosol injection as a consumer subscription. Pick a plan, pick a region, and our balloon fleet handles the rest. The Personal plan ($9.99/mo) offsets one household's warming. The Municipal plan cools a mid-sized city by a measurable amount, whether or not the city signed up, which brings us to our enterprise sales motion: we cool you first and invoice you after.
Yes, the academic literature calls this a moral hazard, on the theory that a cheap fix removes the incentive to cut emissions. We'd say the academic literature has had thirty years.
What happens if we stop? Temperatures snap back within a couple of years, rapidly. We prefer to call this recurring revenue.
Active founders
Ansel Rozhdestvensky-Park
Co-founder & CEO
Atmospheric chemist. Left his postdoc after a grant reviewer wrote "you cannot simply do this." Keeps the review in his wallet.
Juno Battersby
Co-founder & Head of Launch
Former high-altitude balloon hobbyist. Is on a first-name basis with several air traffic controllers, not in a good way.