Space Ring Could Shade Earth and Stop Global Warming | |
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Space Ring Could Shade Earth and Stop Global Warming By Robert Roy Britt Senior Writer posted: 27 June 2005 02:14 pm ET A wild idea to combat global warming suggests creating an artificial ring of small particles or spacecrafts around Earth to shade the tropics and moderate climate extremes. There would be side effects, proponents admit. An effective sunlight-scattering particle ring would illuminate our night sky as much as the full Moon, for example. And the price tag would knock the socks off even a big-budget agency like NASA: $6 trillion to $200 trillion for the particle approach. Deploying tiny spacecraft would come at a relative bargain: a mere $500 billion tops. But the idea, detailed today in the online version of the journal Acta Astronautica, illustrates that climate change can be battled with new technologies, according to one scientist not involved in the new work. [link to www.livescience.com] |
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Cl1mh4224rd 12/08/2005 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Wouldn´t it be cheaper, easier, and more effective to, I don´t know, build energy systems that don´t release carbon? Just a thought." The "space ring" is a cool idea... for sci-fi. There are plenty of more reasonable and feasible methods. |
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