Following the money around geoengineering experiments, proposals, and reviews reveals a small pool of experts—dubbed the “geoclique” by Eli Kintisch (2010)—that are both involved in assessing geoengineering proposals and receiving funding from private foundations interested in the patenting of geoengineering solutions. For example, Ken Caldeira from Carnegie Institute for Science, Stanford and David Keith, from Harvard University have received $4.6 million from the Gates Foundation to run the Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (Ficer), and Caldeira personally receives $375 000 a year to undertake geoengineering research. Both Caldeira and Keith have a number of registered patents for geoengineering technologies: Caldeira is named on a patent (US20090173386A1) with Bill Gates for “Water alteration structure applications and Methods” (2009), patent (US6890497) for “Extracting and sequestering of carbon dioxide from a gas stream” (2005), and David Keith is named on a patent (WO2009155539A2) for “Carbon dioxide capture method for generating carbon credits” (2009) and a patent (US20100064890A1) for “Carbon dioxide capture facility” (2010). What these patents make clear is the intersection of carbon and biotech markets with the technological and scientific development of geoengineering. Philip Rasch (from Northwest Laboratory who received $600 000 from Ficer), Caldeira, and Keith all participated in the Royal Society Report (2009), as well testifying to the US Congress about the need for government funding of large-scale geoengineering (Vidal, 2012) and Keith gave oral evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee on The Regulation of Geoengineering (2010), thereby using private money to lobby for public funding. p 2803