Future customers of Stardust It seems that there are governments: because the countries consider geoengineering, Stardust can be ready for sale to tools to achieve these goals, he said several experts. In E -Mail, answers to questions about his business model Yedvab described the company’s approach as “based on the assumption” that solar geoengineering “will hit a key role in solving global warming in the coming decades.”
Yedvab added that the company’s technology portfolio “can be implemented in accordance with the decisions of the US government and the international community.”
The company is trying to patent geoenginery technology. “We expect that as LED LED [geoengineering] Research and progress programs, the value of the Stardust technological portfolio will enhance accordingly, “wrote Yedvab.
The perspective of the restricted private geoengineering technology is worried about some experts. Pasztor recommends that Stardust cooperate with his investors to examine the ways of distributing his intellectual property, like Volvo, a patented three -point seat belt design freely for other manufacturers 60 years ago. Alternatively, Stardust can cooperate with governments to buy full intellectual property rights that can independently provide technology.
In any case,, according to Pasztor, Stardust can act in an ethical way only if they do it with full transparency and independent supervision: “they work in a vacuum, in the sense that there is no social license to do what they are trying to do.”
Other experts also questioned Stardust’s behavior so far. As for the rules of governance, such as transparency and public commitment, “they are not attached to any of them,” said Shuchi Talati, founder of the Sunny GeoEngineering, Washington Sunny Alliance, non -DC -based organizations. “Pate report is the only public thing we know about them,” she added. Talati said that Stardust did not carry out any public consultations on field tests outside, nor did he reveal any data or other information about them. And this lack of transparency can have consequences for the company, she argued, because the Stardust approach can cause conspiracy theories about what the “secret Israeli company does”, and it will be harder to trust people on the way to people.
Better approach, Talati argued in Article published in JanuaryThat Stardust is communicative and build trust as soon as possible, revealing what he is doing and who is addictive. She argued that the company’s sponsors should reveal the scope of the work they finance.
People in Friends of the Earth, an environmental group that has long rejected geoengineering as “Dangerous remark“Echo Talati fears and goes on with the criticism of Stardust.” I do not think that the financing of venture capital is compatible and involved in scientific ideals, “said Benjamin Day, a senior enemy activist in the case of geoengineering. In his opinion, the problem is that Stardust’s engineers are interested in finding this stratospheric can and should be ready.
If the governments decide to use geoengineering, they can become strongly dependent on Star, if they are ahead of the competition – what is not there now, said Day. “There is no private market for geoengineering technology. They will only earn money if it is implemented by governments, and at this point they try to maintain the rule of hosters with technological patents.”