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I don't think this is actually feasible. [0] suggests you would need a mirror of 600,000 square miles (~700 miles to a side) at the L1 point to block 1% of sola
by Analemma_ 6y ago
I don't think this is actually feasible. [0] suggests you would need a mirror of 600,000 square miles (~700 miles to a side) at the L1 point to block 1% of solar radiation. And Lagrange points aren't actually gravitationally stable, you need station-keeping thrusters. Not sure how we'd go about pushing a wall of mirrors the size of France.
[0]: https://www.livescience.com/22202-space-mirrors-global-warming.html https://www.livescience.com/22202-space-mirrors-global-warmi...
- unchocked 6y agoIt's a solar sail, so you can control it by differential albedo change. Here's a paper on the theory: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0136648 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...