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Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis? Time and money would be better spent on working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] sonori@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

To add on to that, in more serious proposals, the idea is to mass manufacture a lot of small satellites you could hold in your hand, attached to about a km or so of hyper thin foil. At obital velocity, any micrometeorites or other object will flash vaporize an equal sized hole on contact, and indeed this is how we do modern micrometeorite shielding for spacecraft today.

We just care about blocking a tiny fraction of relevant sunlight, holes don’t really effect the outcome compared to the negative space around the satellite.