sabbah@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 years agoUS considers 'sun blocking' to cool the Earth: What is it and does it really work?www.euronews.comexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1182arrow-down19
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minus-squareBrightCandle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 years agoGiven much of the transition to renewable energy is planned to be solar this may be counterproductive. China is rolling out monumental amounts of solar at the moment, we can’t just block the sun since it’s part of the solution.
minus-squareGatsby@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 years agoUnless we block the sun with a big solar panel!
minus-squareXTornado@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoSun Power Beaming https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/news/2022-09-solar-power-beams-a-step-towards-cleaner-energy https://www.space.com/space-solar-power-satellite-beams-energy-1st-time This is the scifi future baby! Everything going up from now on 🚀
minus-squareschroedingershat@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoThey lit an LED with a radio and a rectifier. Nothing futuristic involved at all.
minus-squareschroedingershat@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoConsider me successfully poe’d then. Seen so many people taking it seriously and claiming we need to focus on that instead of land based.
Given much of the transition to renewable energy is planned to be solar this may be counterproductive. China is rolling out monumental amounts of solar at the moment, we can’t just block the sun since it’s part of the solution.
Unless we block the sun with a big solar panel!
Sun Power Beaming
https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/news/2022-09-solar-power-beams-a-step-towards-cleaner-energy
https://www.space.com/space-solar-power-satellite-beams-energy-1st-time
This is the scifi future baby! Everything going up from now on 🚀
They lit an LED with a radio and a rectifier. Nothing futuristic involved at all.
I was mostly joking 😂
Consider me successfully poe’d then. Seen so many people taking it seriously and claiming we need to focus on that instead of land based.