There's something obscene about co-opting Tolkien - a man who, whatever his other (extensive) failings, was rightly concerned about the potential damage caused by hasty and ill-considered industrialization to do damage, for whatever the fuck this is meant to be.
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Part of most geoengineering - the easy stuff like "throw limestone powder into the air, forever" - is blocking light reaching the ground*.
The part where all the crops are, and the solar panels.
Makes sense they'd try to resurrect the old USSR solar mirror, which did work, to offset this reduction .. for a very reasonable price, I'm sure.
*and possibly killing everything that can't breath limestone dust, who knows?
they're going to block the sun and sell Sunlight as a Service
Just make Burns deploying his sun blocker into an emoji at this point
Thank god I always wanted eternal darkness, so tired of wearing sunscreen all the time
I've been following Reflect Orbital since they started. Terrible awful idea. I can't believe they have gotten funding.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
this is literally the exact opposite of what you'd want to do with looming climate change apocalypse in sight
like I was going to comment "no actually this would work it would just be difficult and would result in diminished agricultural yields and lower solar panel efficiency" before I realized they want to reflect light towards earth
Space data centers are a much better idea, ecologically speaking.
Its because all this stuff is in the care of people who have no idea how any of this works
Their understanding of science is from movies, they think they can just innovate a magic technology to solve everything because the don't like the solutions given from real experts
Just fucking battery and wind at night or something.
I know a family w solar panels on their roof. 100% of their home's power comes from solar, 24/7. Energy generated in the daytime stores up in the battery to be used at night. It actually generates a ton of excess energy they don't need, which gets distributed to the local electric grid to help power other homes in the neighborhood, which they gets compensated for
side rant Solar is so rare in the US that Amerikans seem to just assume the dumbest shit about it.. like people really think it's useless whenever there's a couple clouds? In reality, the large majority of invisible light photons (i.e. ultraviolet) still passes thru even the thickest clouds. This shit is 5th grade knowledge! Solar panels are 70-90% as efficient on very cloudy or rainy days as they are on sunny days
This is going to burn down a neighborhood
If it makes you feel better this isn't going to actually happen. They'll do the same big song and dance all high-investment, high-tech, low-likelihood projects that exist to distract from the fact nothing is happening and all money is funnelled into scams get.
Oh yeah absolutely
but think of the military applications, just make baghdad 200 degrees at all times 
It's going to be dimmer than a full moon
Oh yea, this will definitely be a real thing, just like those moon hotels and space hotels and data centers that are already up there. In no way is this a scam.