America; where every dystopic idea becomes government policy. What a fucking nightmare. Is the White House not aware that the earth's atmosphere does not actually belong to America to fuck with in the first place?
Once again I'll mention "A Time Odyssey" series by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter and to be exact, the second book in the series <i>Sunstorm</i>. In which Earth is preparing to mitigate - as much is possible, a massive solar eruption with megascale engineering projects. The major outer space idea is to reflect this eruption with a giant shield made of Fresnel lenses fully built in space and installed at Lagrange 1 point
If we're now talking about blocking sunlight from space, why not block it with solar panels? The power can be beamed back to Earth to drive carbon capture devices, along with powering AC and everything else. I wouldn't have a problem with it as long as it can be made safe. Some have said it can here on HN. Indeed even if global warming wasn't an existential threat we should be doing that to capture more low entropy energy from the sun with solar stationary panels in the same orbit as earth. Long term we could join them together with carbon nanotube cables to make a partial dyson sphere. Why should all this energy be wasted out of the solar system?
> White House opens the door to study blocking sun’s rays to slow global warming<p>For many years it was dark. And then, one day, it was suddenly light. /s
more great leadership from the Biden team.... Maybe a few on the team snorted too much powder in the White House? A reasonably sized volcano will serve the same purpose...
Reminds me of the dystopia featured in the 2nd season of Picard: rather than solve the environmental problems, they just used technology to block out the effects.