Its because all this stuff is in the care of people who have no idea how any of this works
Their understanding of science is from movies, they think they can just innovate a magic technology to solve everything because the don’t like the solutions given from real experts
Literally the plot to one of the shittiest Bond films Diamonds are Forever, and the shitty remake Die Another Day.
The only good thing to come out of Diamonds are Forever is the theme song
Well, that and the fact that the video game Everything or Nothing is technically a direct sequel to it
Pretty solid game, only complaint was getting all the Bond challenges was an exercise in frustration
this is literally the exact opposite of what you’d want to do with looming climate change apocalypse in sight
like I was going to comment “no actually this would work it would just be difficult and would result in diminished agricultural yields and lower solar panel efficiency” before I realized they want to reflect light towards earth
The Soviets pulled this off decades ago anyways.
just want them back
Im suddenly really curious how widespread communist sympathy is in Russia and post- Soviet states and, if low, how they failed so hard at spreading communist ideology
how they failed so hard at spreading communist ideology
Revisionism after Lenin and Stalin
they’re going to block the sun and sell Sunlight as a Service
Just make Burns deploying his sun blocker into an emoji at this point
Thank god I always wanted eternal darkness, so tired of wearing sunscreen all the time
This is going to burn down a neighborhood
If it makes you feel better this isn’t going to actually happen. They’ll do the same big song and dance all high-investment, high-tech, low-likelihood projects that exist to distract from the fact nothing is happening and all money is funnelled into scams get.
Oh yeah absolutely
but think of the military applications, just make baghdad 200 degrees at all times
It’s going to be dimmer than a full moon
Just fucking battery and wind at night or something.
I know a family w solar panels on their roof. 100% of their home’s power comes from solar, 24/7. Energy generated in the daytime stores up in the battery to be used at night. It actually generates a ton of excess energy they don’t need, which gets distributed to the local electric grid to help power other homes in the neighborhood, which they gets compensated for
side rant Solar is so rare in the US that Amerikans seem to just assume the dumbest shit about it… like people really think it’s completely useless whenever there’s a couple clouds? Sure it’s most efficient on sunny days, but there’s still quintillions of photons even when it’s cloudy, enough that a lot of solar-powered homes rarely even need to dip into the battery for power on cloudy days. 80% of UV wavelengths (light that’s invisible to us) actually easily penetrates thru clouds… this shit is 5th grade knowledge!
The FCC said that the “risks of harm raised on the record regarding Reflect Orbital’s solar reflector are unrelated to the Commission’s role in authorizing use of radiofrequency spectrum.”
LIGHT IS RADIATION DENY THESE FUCKERS NOW AND MAKE A JUDGE SETTLE IT GODAM FUCKFUCKFUCK DONT CONCEED THE NIGHT WITHOUT A FIGHT
Monkey’s Paw: FCC is now responsible for regulating the light part of the spectrum too, you need a license to operate a lightbulb
To be completely fair, visible light is not used normally for communications without optic fiber, so there are no concerns for interference. FCC doesn’t regulate night lamps afaik
I’ve been following Reflect Orbital since they started. Terrible awful idea. I can’t believe they have gotten funding.
Ah, but have you considered investors are morons
It will fail, mark my words.
It won’t even get built lmao
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
There’s something obscene about co-opting Tolkien - a man who, whatever his other (extensive) failings, was rightly concerned about the potential damage caused by hasty and ill-considered industrialization to do damage, for whatever the fuck this is meant to be.
Space data centers are a much better idea, ecologically speaking.
Part of most geoengineering - the easy stuff like “throw limestone powder into the air, forever” - is blocking light reaching the ground*.
The part where all the crops are, and the solar panels.
Makes sense they’d try to resurrect the old USSR solar mirror, which did work, to offset this reduction … for a very reasonable price, I’m sure.
*and possibly killing everything that can’t breath limestone dust, who knows?
Oh yea, this will definitely be a real thing, just like those moon hotels and space hotels and data centers that are already up there. In no way is this a scam.
Fiction: Dyson Sphere for unlimited, almost free energy.
Reality: Glorified tanning reflector for the filthy rich.
