Got a feeling that “environmentalist” will find any number of reasons to object.
Absolutely. Bear in mind that this increases the amount of energy delivered to the Earth, which means that this will cause global warming. Unless we make giant space heatsinks to balance them.
Maybe we can launch an equal amount of liberials into space. With all the hot air they generate, we could reach a balance.
Clouds of scatters in equatorial orbits at otherwise useless altitudes. The astronomers will hate it. We'll give them a dozen ten meter orbiting telescopes to make up.
Or a foil mirror at the L1 Lagrange point with just enough cross section to exactly balance the additional energy downlinked. Station keeping would be interesting. It would cast a constant penumbral shadow on the equator which would be a relatively mild annoyance.
Cool! Saturn has rings -- aww, that's nuthin' -- we got VANES!!