Siphoning 2% of the sun’s radiation sounds easy until you think about how much fucking energy that is. If we back it off to like 1% we can catapult ourselves onto the kardashev scale. #10 would still be at play, and it would be even more disastrous than before!
Siphoning 2% of the sun’s radiation sounds easy until you think about how much fucking energy that is. If we back it off to like 1% we can catapult ourselves onto the kardashev scale. #10 would still be at play, and it would be even more disastrous than before!
Well it says “siphoning”, but I think it rather refers to just blocking the light.
Which is something we’ve actually thought about and which definitely doesn’t have any global risks attached to it.
https://theconversation.com/not-such-a-bright-idea-cooling-the-earth-by-reflecting-sunlight-back-to-space-is-a-dangerous-distraction-223353