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This paper estimates the cost at ~$2.25B/year, and notes that more than 50 countries have military budgets exceeding $3B: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

This paper estimates the cost at ~$2.25B/year, and notes that more than 50 countries have military budgets exceeding $3B: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d#erlaae98ds5 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d#... They point out the plan assumes you can launch planes from a few different points around the globe. You don’t need global agreement, but at least access to some foreign airports.

chillacy 7y ago
The scary part is how to resolve disputes over geoengineering. What if China decides to make the Gobi desert farmland but downwind it makes California the new Sahara desert?
0xffff2 7y ago
>This paper estimates the cost at ~$2.25B/year, and notes that more than 50 countries have military budgets exceeding $3B An utterly meaningless comparison. None of those countries are going to simply stop spending all of their money on their military overnight.