Hurricane Season
As hurricane season gets rolling, we’ve been getting a lot of interest in our hurricane suppression technology, which could be a simple way to reduce the force of these massive storms. These inquiries are the result of press about Bill Gates being one of the (twelve) inventors listed on the patent. We often host “invention sessions” with a wide variety of experts in the same room exploring problems and ideas. In the lab, we call this invention the “Salter Sink” as it originates with ideas of Stephen Salter, who has worked extensively on wave energy. We’ve been working to validate aspects of this idea and research some of the big questions about how well it would work. We’ll continue to do so, and begin sharing some of this work in a few months.
In the mean time, I’d like to point out that we aren’t building this device, and have no plan to. We are exploring ideas to solve the world’s hard problems in energy and climate issues, and need lots of other folks to research them too before they can be considered for deployment.