Thursday, May 17, 2012

UK climate experiment cancelled on patent concerns

Reuters: British scientists have abandoned an experiment to test the possibility of spraying particles into the upper atmosphere to stem global warming, largely due to concerns over a patent for some of the technology, the project's leader said. Scientists and engineers from the universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Oxford are behind a three-year, 1.6 million pound geo-engineering project called Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE). They had intended to pump water through...

URL: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-climate-experiment-cancelled-patent-concerns-113921511.html

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