A billionaire researching plans to dim the Sun might seem like the plot of a famous Simpsons episode, but that is exactly what Jeff Bezos is doing.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research and SilverLining are working with Amazon to create models that show what would happen if we blocked out some of the Sun's rays.
The company is donating its powerful computer processors to help model 30 different simulations of Earth's future climate. In one of the simulations, humans have injected aerosols into the atmosphere to dim the sun's rays.
There are clouds in the sky.
Climate modeling requires expensive computers. Climate researchers can use the cloud computing system of Amazon thanks to the partnership.
Kelly Wanser, the executive director of SilverLining, told Gizmodo that cloud computing could support workloads like this. Can you break the adoption impasse and see if you can get this stuff running on the cloud? What happens if you do that?
Solar radiation management.
There are a lot of benefits to Amazon donating resources for this effort. There is very little research done on the full impacts of solar radiation management.
The technique could be useful in preventing future disasters since it seems that catastrophic climate change is getting more likely each year. It could end up creating a horrible set of problems on its own, which makes research all the more important.
Amazon is helping researchers study how to dim the sun.
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