Posted on 08/09/2023 3:28:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Some of the most exotic solutions to climate change are the various forms of geoengineering. Such proposals aim to reduce global warming by shrinking the amount of solar radiation that reaches Earth’s surface—by, say, injecting large amounts of sulfur dioxide or dust into the air to mimic the cooling effect of large volcanic eruptions. Or building catapults to launch lunar dust into orbit around Earth and intercept the sun’s rays in the space near our planet.
But University of Hawaii cosmologist István Szapudi has an even more far-out idea: place a 372,000-mile-wide sun shade tethered to a captured asteroid between Earth and the sun to reduce the amount of solar radiation reaching our planet by 1.7 percent. His analysis is agnostic to the shade’s shape, though he imagines it could be a circular shade made of triangular segments, able to open or close like flower petals to allow variable amounts of sunlight through.
“It’s not going to cast a sharp shadow,” Szapudi says. ”Maybe with a telescope you could notice that there is something in front of the sun. But other than that, it would just be that people would notice that the weather is a little bit better.”
He readily admits that this concept would require millions of dollars investment in just preliminary engineering studies to see if it is really possible. “Of course, it’s unrealistic to actually do this, so hopefully, we will slowly give up fossil fuels,” Szapudi says, citing a much more mainstream goal to curb a source of climate change. “But that’s a very long-term process.”
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We don’t have enough time left (7 and a half years) to build it anyway. LOL
what could go wrong?
LMAO
IQ test.
Idiots.
It would throw us into an ice age. Anyone who has been outside for a solar eclipse knows how much you can feel the temperature drop as the sun gets covered.
Besides, historically, human progress follows climate optimums, periods of warmer weather. The colder weather is associated with things like the Dark Ages, and other times of disease and privation.
We cannot control the weather and have no idea what is actually causing any alleged changes in climate, so experimenting with things like this will most certainly be disastrous.
Yup. Those people know more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
And that's what it's all about. This stupidity will never become reality, because a civilization advanced enough to build such a thing would be advanced enough to know it's a really bad idea, but there might be some money to be scammed along the way.
Well, if you like snow and ice, sure. Otherwise, personally I prefer warmer days.
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“Sky hooks? Rather “space hooks”?
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Just think. The people coming up with these ideas are “educated” and have degrees. Tells you everything about the quality of a college education nowadays.
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You are correct, and it’s not an accident.
It’s been a while since I’ve been in academia but the students working on projects and papers sit around with their professors and department heads and propose their thesis ideals and they will shoot you down until you land on something they like. It’s usually not a hard no. They just ask you questions about your proposal until you cave.
I doubt this silly concept popped in his head out of a vacuum. Pun intended.
No better time than now to review the effect of blocking the sun. With all of the fires raging all over the globe. The Canadian fire alone is doing a pretty good job !
These people really really want a transcontinental glaciation!
Because that’s what you would get if you could actually interfere with the sun radiating on the earth.
We could induce a nuclear winter.
The amount of sq footage roofs and roads cover is miniscule compared to the ttl land area.
Wait a minute. What does the Sun have to do with “climate change”? I thought we caused it and it was all about what we did to the Earth. We didn’t do anything to the Sun.
What have they done to the Earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down
-Jim Morrison
Why don’t the Feddies put the illegals to work making sombreros and give everyone on the plant one.
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