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by NoMoreNicksLeft 970 days ago
That's a tiny amount, relatively. But is that "just a little more" or is it "just a little more, but in a really inconvenient and difficult to reach altitude"?

What kind of infrastructure would be required to put it where it needs to go?

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You would need a few pipes the width of garden hoses constantly flowing, suspended by helium balloons, near the Arctic where the stratosphere is 1km closer.
I think putting any amount of tons of matter into stratospheric altitude is a hard challenge.

Especially if we consider the fact that you would be putting upwards of 200t[0] of CO2 into roughly the same altitude Only to deliver maybe 5 tons of sulfur.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/19/billionaires...

But we don't need to do that excessively fast. How about a stratospheric balloon? Balloons reach 30-40 km for weather observation purposes.