David, I don't think that Silver Lining ever had any investors. I don't think it ever was an entity with any kind of legal existence. "Silver Linings" is just a name for an informal group of friends and collaborators.
This article seems to have a fairly accurate description ( http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Looking-to-sky-to-fight-climate-change-4170475.php ): Since retiring, Neukermans has dedicated his time and money to a series of social and environmental causes, including efforts to develop land-mine-detection technology and inexpensive prostheses for the poor. He turned his attention to cloud brightening in early 2010, recruiting a team made up mostly of former colleagues, after the Bill Gates<http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Bill+Gates%22> -supported Fund for Innovative Climate<http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Fund+for+Innovative+Climate%22> and Energy Research provided money for an initial viability test. "He more or less showed it was feasible to my satisfaction," said Ken Caldeira<http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Ken+Caldeira%22>, a prominent climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution on the Stanford<http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Carnegie+Institution+on+the+Stanford%22> campus and co-manager of the fund. As the group attempts to develop an actual prototype, Neukermans is covering the expenses out of his own pocket - and the group is working pro bono. The five-man team is an esteemed contingent of Silicon Valley's old guard. Most are in their 60s or 70s; they have playfully referred to themselves as the "Silver Linings." But they're engineering heavyweights, boasting 250 years of experience and 130 patents among them. They include Lee Galbraith<http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Lee+Galbraith%22>, inventor of a breakthrough tool for inspecting semiconductors, and Jack Foster<http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Jack+Foster%22>, a laser pioneer who helped create the first This is what I mean by "truthiness". John Latham and others were making claims about the ability to do marine cloud brightening, but many thought that it would be impossible to make a fine enough spray. David Keith and I chose to fund Armond Neukermans to try to demonstrate the feasibility of such a fine salt water mist in the lab (which I had thought impossible). We specified that while we were giving Armond some money, we would have no financial interest in his outcomes. There was no investment. There was a grant, which is essentially a gift. When Armond demonstrated that he could make a fine spray, we cut off his funding. He was a victim of his own success. We were interested in a feasibility test. When he showed it was feasible, that was the end of his funding. We were specifically not interested in funding development of deployment hardware. We were also specific in not wanting Armond to test anything outdoors, despite that it was just a salt-water spray. Rather than making money, Armond has sunk his own time and money into the project. So, a grant that David Keith and I chose to give a grant to Armond Neukermans for an indoor feasibility test, where we specifically stated that we wanted no financial interest in the outcome, becomes an "investment" by Bill Gates, and the implication that he is trying to profit even if it means damaging the global environment. This is the sort of "truthiness" to which I refer. Best, Ken On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:17 PM, David Appell <[email protected]>wrote: > Ken Caldeira wrote: > >> Unfortunately, Clive does himself and the broader discussion a disservice >> by promulgating an abundance of misinformation. >> >> Just grabbing the first thing I could find on the web, he claimed that >> Bill Gates is an investor in Silver Lining, which is patently untrue. Bill >> Gates has no investment in Silver Lining. >> > > OK. > So where can we find a list of all the investors in Silver Lining, > including amounts? > > David > > > -- > David Appell, independent science writer > e: [email protected] > w: http://www.davidappell.com > t: @davidappell > b: http://davidappell.blogspot.**com <http://davidappell.blogspot.com> > m: Salem, OR > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > geoengineering+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<geoengineering%[email protected]> > . > To post to this group, send email to > geoengineering@googlegroups.**com<[email protected]> > . > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/geoengineering?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. 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