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From: wooding@daisy.UUCP (Mike Wooding)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,sci.misc
Subject: Re: greenhouse effect / solar power satellites
Message-ID: <1033@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 20:38:57 GMT
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Summary: getting in the shade

In article <1840@ssc-vax.UUCP>, eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder) writes:
> In fact, if there is not enough time to run all our power
> plants backwards to get the CO2 out of the atmosphere before we
> fry, intentionally placing mirrors in orbit to deflect inco iming
> sunlight might give us more time to solve the problem.
> 
> Dani Eder/Boeing/Space Station Program

 Might be easier to make a cloud (of dust?) for a little shade
 on a hot day. Wouldn't stay around a long time, but then that
 could be an advantage. Gets noticeably cooler during an eclipse
 which lasts only minutes. Were talking a LOT of dust though,
 more than might be reasonable to lift from earth, but there's 
 the moon. And with a mass launcher, and maybe some static
 charge to disperse, ... well you get the idea? Could it be
 kept from falling to earth? Would it matter if it did?

 m wooding