might be an easier way. First deploy a gigantic rigid curtain made up of 5, 10 or whatever percent of solar cells deemed necessary to provide whatever cooling the earth needed. The curtain would be as close to the earth/moon system as possible and in an orbit around the sun parallel to earth's orbit. A few strategically located solar-powered ion thrusters to keep everything positioned properly and voila'. The resultant shade would cool things down and the solar energy trapped by the cells could be beamed to microwave receivers on the oceans away from populations for safety and distributed from there to wherever needed or wanted
I think you have the right idea...hang a curtain, and keep the light out...it could have tie backs to let in a small amount of sun light every day so to give people could have a vague memory of life on earth when we had trees, flowers, and waters...
Of course the night people of the world would be the one to push the rockets, and I sure hope everyone of them will have passed a drug test, and know how to parallel park...if they get up there and can't make it back, will we care????
Heck no, we'll be dead, and they can go find a new earth and play 'Adam and Eve..no fair, I'm going to stow away! Besides, I know how to parallel park, and I'm bringing the cooler!
We can bring BRK, he likes to live life on the edge, so we can send him out to see if he can snow ski down a mountain yet.. |
