Building A Global Thermostat

Posted by Big Gav

From an asylum for techno-utopian fantasists comes a novel plan for mitigating the effects of global warming - by constructing a giant ring in space to provide enough shade to cool the planet enough to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions. Maybe they should use billions of little umbrellas ? Or even better, billions of solar panels that could be hooked up to a big wire coming back down to earth. Energy problem solved - NASA, please get onto it...

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2 comments

@whut says 1:31 PM

Good grief, trying to catch up on news and this stuff keeps the humor level up.

New names for our planet:
- Saturn, Jr.
- ShadeCo
- Bush_Told_Me_It_Would_Work.com

Anonymous says 6:45 AM

Have these guys ever heard of EROEI?! I propose that we should teach this concept in primary
school.
What's the carbon/greenhouse cost of constructing this proposed shield?
All reporters/journalists should demand this kind of accounting.