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Why not use the ever decreasing costs of space flight to lift blocks or reflectors into our planetary L1 point? We wouldn't have to affect our own atmosphere to
by WhompingWindows 6y ago
Why not use the ever decreasing costs of space flight to lift blocks or reflectors into our planetary L1 point? We wouldn't have to affect our own atmosphere to do this, though it may cost more to get a sufficiently sized object into orbit.
- bamboozled 6y agoJust an idea, but it would be super cool if we could 3d print large sun shades in space and have them moved into position :)
- brobdingnagians 6y agoThat would be neat, and the technology developed for doing it would probably be more widely applicable as well. Could have some interesting developments with creating a supply chain in space
- rbanffy 6y agoIt'd be a humongous sunshade if it were placed in the Earth-Sun L1 (it'd need to be slightly inwards, towards the Sun, to compensate for the solar wind push, which would also allow it to have some attitude control). The good thing is that, when it's no longer needed, it can use those same attitude control sails to go towards the Sun-Venus L1 to start cooling down our sister planet. I have the impression it'll take a long time to get rid of the rotten egg smell, but, if it's cool enough, we can hope to fixate some of the carbon in the atmosphere and cool it even further.