A team of scientists and engineers will pump water through a high-pressure hose suspended from a helium balloon 1km above a disused airfield in Norfolk next month in an unlikely effort to develop a technological solution to combating climate change.
The test at Sculthorpe will be Britain’s first experiment in the controversial field of geoengineering - counteracting global warming by deliberately cooling the climate.
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