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There's no stationary orbit over the poles
by zatertip 7y ago
There's no stationary orbit over the poles
- jedberg 7y agoIf we’re living in “reflectors over the poles” fantasyland, I’m sure we can come up with a way to put continuously firing boosters on it to keep it over the pole.
- seibelj 7y agoI have no idea if that’s possible, what I mean is we should stop trying to get the US and China to agree on anything let alone climate change so we need grand silver bullet solutions.
- simias 7y agoChina does accept the reality of climate change and is enacting policies against it. It might not be nearly enough but it's not fair to lump them with the USA on this one.
- StaticRedux 7y ago80%+ of the plastic in the ocean comes from China. It's not fair to lump the US in with China. "They recognize it and want to do something" doesn't mean shit when you're by far the worst part of the problem. Especially when "wanting to do something about it" and "doing something about it" are ridiculously different things.
- briandear 7y agoHave you been to Beijing? China is in a class all of its own when it comes to pollution. It’s not fair to lump the US in with China.
- flukus 7y agoHave you bought products manufactured in China? That's your pollution.
- ben_w 7y agoAlso, the snow is pretty reflective. And silver-plating any exposed rock is cheaper than going to orbit, per kg of silver/kg-to-LEO.
- the8472 7y agowell, technically you need less silver in orbit since you can use extremely thin films which just wouldn't survive on the ground. but yeah, it's still a very impractical proposition.
- the8472 7y agothe latest climate-engineering proposals for sunshades involve placing a cloud of reflective or diffracting solar sails at L1, not in close earth orbit over any specific region.
- blarb_blarb 7y agoI don't see the word "orbit" used at all, except by you. Sounds like you'd imagine a permanent eclipsing body is something that would employ an orbital insertion into earth orbit, which is your own assumption.
- ianstallings 7y agoPlease explain how you put "reflectors in space" without putting them into orbit.