And here's another one: We don't get to use all the solar energy landing on the planet. Not even close. Why? Because, if you did, you would kill every singl

And here's another one: We don't get to use all the solar energy landing on the planet. Not even close. Why? Because, if you did, you would kill every single forest and all of agriculture. You would kill every single animal. You would likely kill the oceans. You might kill bacteria, insects and seriously disrupt weather. I can't even think about all the variables that would be deeply disturbed if humanity decided we are going to attempt to use a big chunk of what solar energy lands on the planet. And blocking it from space? Seriously? Again, refer to the prior paragraph, let's go ahead and kill everything on earth. These ideas might sound good after a beer or two but are nothing less than laughable once someone sits down and really puts pen to paper. We are proposing to mess with forces we can't possibly understand. I have said this many times, we can't even take care of small-scale ecosystems and we are actually lending credence to nut-cases suggesting such things as deploying devices in space to block the sun. Wonderful.