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Re:China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough by mc32 on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:47PM (#12933129)
If we could use the concept of space elevators and instead floated solar "panels" in the sky we could achieve two things, unimpeded surface area for installation and second a sunshield to cool things off a bit and forestall climatologically induced planetary change.
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Re:China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough by Florin_Andrei on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:49PM (#12933155)
The space umbrella concept.

We may have to do it eventually, seeing as climate science is drowning under a flood of irrationality and lies.

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Re:China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough by mc32 on Friday November 11, 2016 @02:07PM (#12933356)
Yes, although one wonders what the impact might be on ecosystems with less energy coming in (even if we limited the sunshields to underproductive polar regions).
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