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Sun ‘umbrella’ tethered to asteroid might help mitigate climate change (hawaii.edu)
2 points by geox on Aug 1, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences

See "Perverse consequences of environmental intervention"


A shade with a large number of fine slits that allowed light passage might work. selecting the right slit width to affect the optimal wave bands - is IR the main heat? Passage would create a number of divergent bands as that frequency passed. Particles would be unhindered for the most part = less solar stream drag. Even so there would be light drag - does the interference add a drag? Even very thin screens mass significantly over a large area and might become hard to manage. A circular screen that was gradually spun up to make a spin-rigid disc would work if it was held rigid enough by a thin rim and the spin-up was gradual enough?




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