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Ex-Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer's venture firm Gigascale Capital closed a $250 million fund for early-stage climate tech, focusing on energy, grid infrastructure, and critical minerals. The fund, its first with institutional investors, will back startups supplying cheaper power and physical AI.
This commentary examines geoengineering trials that pump seawater onto Arctic sea ice to thicken it, reporting mixed results: ice in Norway still melted on the same day as untreated ice, while Canadian trials showed increased thickness. The article argues that ice quality, not just thickness, determines melt timing, and questions the long-term viability of such interventions.