• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    3 months ago

    How will launching mirrors of the size of your entire farm (if not hundreds times larger) for extra 30 min of sunset ever be more cost-effective than simply adding a small percentage of extra PV panels

    This is this year’s single biggest understatement

  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    This has the potential for some amazing pranks. Imagine being on a camping trip somewhere, the dawn light illuminates your tent, so you get up and start going about your day, making breakfast etc, and all of a sudden the sun goes out.

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
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    3 months ago

    Scientists: Climate change is happening.

    Some billionaires: Let’s make a giant parasol in space.

    This guy: How about more sun?

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    I was actually thinking 🤔…hmm this would be the best way to tell some other civilization that we live in this planetary system…get a mirror big enough to point a beam out of its normal trajectory in some sort of non random fashion. Basically smoke signals using a mirror.