SCIENCEMIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
Geoengineering still faces major practical challenges
Solar geoengineering, aimed at cooling the planet by reflecting sunlight, faces significant practical challenges. Researchers are exploring aircraft designs like Iris Aero's stratospheric plane and determining optimal particles for atmospheric scattering, but technical and logistical hurdles remain unresolved.
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