MIT and Climate Change

[StarCruiser]

Looks like MIT has come up with a concept on how to - at least - mitigate Climate Change:

https://senseable.mit.edu/space-bubbles/

Silicon "Space Bubbles" at the L-1 Lagrange point between the Earth and the Sun. May not be able to completely reverse it but, could at least buy time...

 

[publiusr]

I think that needs to double as space solar power…maybe with cables to also protect us from another Carrington Event…there was what was called a failed Carrington Event just four days before the Great Daylight Fireball that I proposed might have been a Bracewell probe. Four days earlier, mines off the coast of Vietnam detonated after a solar event of some kind.

semi-transparent solar might lend itself to this
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-semitransparent-solar-cells-size-windows.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-fabricate-highly-transparent-solar-cell.html

Troubling news
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-bigger-temperature-larger-extinction-event.html
Hope?
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-porous-crystals-fluorine-containing-greenhouse-gases.html

 

[XCV330]

I think that needs to double as space solar power…maybe with cables to also protect us from another Carrington Event…there was what was called a failed Carrington Event just four days before the Great Daylight Fireball that I proposed might have been a Bracewell probe. Four days earlier, mines off the coast of Vietnam detonated after a solar event of some kind.

the MIT idea might work because of KISS principle. any attempt to pack on extra kitchen sink functions into what is, a terraforming gambit to keep earth livable, will cause the whole thing to fail.

If the Space Bubbles idea was launched and succeeded, I don't have enough faith in humanity to think that at some point the human race will decide it didn't need the bubbles and move on. But at that point we have indeed become spacefaring by necessity and maintaining climate control systems being maintained would soften people up to the idea of space solar power.

 

[StarCruiser]

Of course - any project of that magnitude will require some serious R&D. It's going to break new ground whether the alt-right loonies like it or not so..?

 

[XCV330]

Of course - any project of that magnitude will require some serious R&D. It's going to break new ground whether the alt-right loonies like it or not so..?

and large inflatables (obviously not on this kind of scale) have been tested long ago in space.
(image of one of the two Echo satellites.. it think Echo 1. Echo 2 was larger). It's something that could be tested at scale relatively cheaply now. The only downside is that I think some environmentalists would have pushback on it. There was some proposal for a series of inflatable fresnel lenses at L1 a few years ago as a way to divert a small fraction of sunlight (would have cost in the trillions, as I recall) but the loudest complaints weren't from the right but the opposite direction, with this holier than though "think on thy sins" mentality of still trying to resolve the carbon problem on Earth. i don't think that will happen in time.

 

[StarCruiser]

Some people - who seem to think they are s.m.a.r.t. - need to stop trying to think too much. We need to take a mixed approach on the whole Global Climate Change (tm) thing.

Find better/cleaner ways to travel, generate power (demand for which will always go up) and deal with all of the pollution (in all forms) - along with finding ways to mitigate the effects or...die trying.