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"...but maybe a screen of some sort could be placed in space to cast shadow on earth at various times and at least slow the process..."


Stationed between the Earth and sun at a point where the gravitational forces nearly cancel each other out, a 600,000-square-mile space "mirror" scatters sunlight with a mesh woven of fine metal wires.

From Popular Science, August 2005: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/3afd8ca927d05010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

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"we could make a large wooden badger."

On a related note, solar power stocks went through the roof!

[John Jamieson]

PS has really gone down hill in last few years. Technology Review too. I won't read either anymore.