The idea has been at the outer fringes of conversations about #ClimateSolutions for years. But as the #ClimateCrisis worsens, interest in #SunShields has been gaining momentum, w/more researchers offering up variations. There’s even a foundation dedicated to promoting #SolarShields.
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The idea is to create a huge sunshade & send it to a far away point between the Earth & the sun to block a small but crucial amount of #SolarRadiation, enough to counter #GlobalWarming. #Scientists have calculated that if just shy of 2% of the sun’s #radiation is blocked, that would be enough to cool the planet by 1.5°C, or 2.7°F, & keep Earth w/in manageable #climate boundaries.
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(3) …”#ComputationalOrigami has been used for new designs of huge #sunshields and #telescope 🔭 lenses that have to be folded up so that they can be launched in a rocket 🚀 & then smoothly unfurled in space 💫 The videos of the prototypes unfurling are spectacular…
Sometimes #math is about practicing how to create 🤔 as much as possible starting from very little, an #idea 💡 with broad applications.” 🧠 ⚡️
