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Re: Global Energy etc.

Easier said than done. The effective area to be blacked out would be 2.6
million km^2, but you really wouldn't want to shadow any inhabited region
even for limited periods of time. I guess you could put up 'filters' that
block a portion of the sunlight, but they would have to be huge--on the
order of the area of earth viewed as a circle--130 million km^2.

Rick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Britton" <britton@NCSSM.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 10:34 AM
Subject: Global Energy etc.


Edward Teller has recently provided 'the' answer to global warming.
Blocking about 2% of our solar input power will do it. His scheme is
a set of obiting reflectors. Another is to block 2% of the sun's
radiation with a single big reflector at the SOHO Lagrange position.

Going 'back' to nuclear will require a TREMENDOUS PR effort.


At 10:13 AM -0500 1/19/01, Michael Edmiston, you wrote about Re: AC
electricity in CA:



But even with coal/garbage to syn-gas we have the global warming problem
from CO2 emissions. Ultimately we have to go nuclear.

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