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Re:28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to... by ComputerGuru on Monday February 12, 2024 @12:05PM (#39347332)
How much dust would you need to shoot up to affect a statistically significant change in the amount of sunlight getting through?
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Re:28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to... by zaroth on Monday February 12, 2024 @03:18PM (#39349893)
A fuckton.

Roughly 100 million tons annually of lunar regolith launched into L1 by railgun.

https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal...

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Re:28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to... by ComputerGuru on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @10:31AM (#39358507)
:blink:

And this was being discussed credibly as "something we'll be doing in the near-term future?"

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