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Houston_Here t1_jaa0c50 wrote

Yeah I saw this movie. The machines turned us into batteries.

How about we just USE the sun to make power rather than block it out.

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lacker101 t1_jaahh08 wrote

Oh that movie? I remember the other one. You know where Elon Musk makes a fusion powered world train, has bloodsports, and forces people to eat bugs.

Perhaps instead we could have some of those nuclear powered plants to help supplement where solar ain't so great.

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Splenda t1_jaaewo8 wrote

Reminder: we also use the sun to grow all our food.

I wonder who'll tell the world's two billion marginal farmers about this genius plan.

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Houston_Here t1_jaafbui wrote

I do enjoy eating. High latitude farmers may frown on reduction of their growing season.

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Codydw12 t1_jaablrk wrote

Well we could send giant solar panels into space, collect the energy via solar voltaic and then use microwaves to beam the energy back down to Earth or power satellites that said panels are on but a lot of people seem to think we're already spending too much money on space.

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BernieEcclestoned OP t1_ja9sucr wrote

>More than sixty scientists from prominent institutions are advocating for rigorous study into reflecting sunlight away from the Earth to mitigate the effects of climate change.

>Air pollution is currently “masking” as much as a third of the impacts of global warming, and as regulations around the world tighten, the amount of global warming will be “unmasked.”

>As the effects of climate change become more acute, pressure to use sunlight-reflection technologies will rise, so scientists argue we need international study now.

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FuturologyBot t1_ja9y0ar wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/BernieEcclestoned:

>More than sixty scientists from prominent institutions are advocating for rigorous study into reflecting sunlight away from the Earth to mitigate the effects of climate change.

>Air pollution is currently “masking” as much as a third of the impacts of global warming, and as regulations around the world tighten, the amount of global warming will be “unmasked.”

>As the effects of climate change become more acute, pressure to use sunlight-reflection technologies will rise, so scientists argue we need international study now.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/11do8h8/sunlight_reflection_solar_geoengineering_must_be/ja9sucr/

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Ok-Equivalent-8509 t1_jaatrdg wrote

Great minds and all they can come up with is holding a mirror up to the sun...

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