At least one Presidential candidate (Andrew Yang Democrat) has reiterated an old proposal made to the US Government in Sept. 2001 to cool the Earth with mirrors in space. The mirrors would be built on the moon, of moon rock, and delivered to the Lagrange Point 1 between the Earth and the Sun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_mirror_(climate_engineering)
Mirrors built at the new moon base would be huge. Altogether 600,000 square kilometers of solar photon reflecting surface on a mesh would be required to cool the Earth one to two percent. In order to have the option of trying to build a sunscreen in space at the Lagrange Point the Congress need fund the return to the Moon program fully and quickly. Technology that is new requires some lead time.
Obviously it would be good to get some private businesses at work for the government on design coordinating with existing N.A.S.A. moon base plans.
Optional planning could include space transportation that would use electro-magnetic propulsion along a straight track on the Moon to accelerate objects to very high velocity toward some sort of orbiting, recycling Earth-Mars ferry as Buzz Aldrin mentioned numerous times.
Electro-magnetic accelerators such as were made in the Star Wars program and later for navy canon perhaps on Earth with a specialized pointy heat shielded projectile moving along a fifty-mile track to orbital escape velocity would be one way to get cargo into orbit rapidly. Creating a network of electro-magnetic accelerators on the moon and around the solar system would provide the adaptability needed to let people discover niches in livable places without requiring a central bureaucratic or even corporate apparatus to plan for everyone involved with some sort of theory.
Plainly there is no easy fix to the world problem of too many people with too much dirty technology disrespecting the ecosphere of the planet. All of the efforts to transition global economics and political economy to sustainable principles (ref. Ecological Economics 2nd ed.) need continue. The overall problem is worse than is usually reported.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_mirror_(climate_engineering)
Mirrors built at the new moon base would be huge. Altogether 600,000 square kilometers of solar photon reflecting surface on a mesh would be required to cool the Earth one to two percent. In order to have the option of trying to build a sunscreen in space at the Lagrange Point the Congress need fund the return to the Moon program fully and quickly. Technology that is new requires some lead time.
Obviously it would be good to get some private businesses at work for the government on design coordinating with existing N.A.S.A. moon base plans.
Optional planning could include space transportation that would use electro-magnetic propulsion along a straight track on the Moon to accelerate objects to very high velocity toward some sort of orbiting, recycling Earth-Mars ferry as Buzz Aldrin mentioned numerous times.
Electro-magnetic accelerators such as were made in the Star Wars program and later for navy canon perhaps on Earth with a specialized pointy heat shielded projectile moving along a fifty-mile track to orbital escape velocity would be one way to get cargo into orbit rapidly. Creating a network of electro-magnetic accelerators on the moon and around the solar system would provide the adaptability needed to let people discover niches in livable places without requiring a central bureaucratic or even corporate apparatus to plan for everyone involved with some sort of theory.
N.A.S.A. image
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