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Luke Iseman, the former director of hardware at Y Combinator, has raised at least $500,000 to launch his sunlight reflection company, Make Sunsets.

He is currently living off the grid in Baja, Mexico, on land he bought a couple years ago, where he continues to tinker. He has a

That wasn't practical enough for him. "Here in reality, I was like, 'OK, what can I buy, ideally, on my credit card, ideally on Amazon, to see if I can even do this?' Maybe I'm missing something fundamental about how hard this is." He gave himself until the end of 2022 to raise money to run more tests, or just publish a description of what he had done. Eventually, he got a bite for a half-million dollars, and incorporated on Oct. 1., which companies will be able to buy to offset the effects of their carbon emissions.

But Iseman believes future carbon markets will evolve to include two things that actually work: permanent carbon dioxide removal, which will be expensive, and sunlight reflection technology, which Iseman says will be incredibly inexpensive at scale. The primary cost of sunlight reflection technology efforts at scale is sulfur dioxide.

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