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Lends some support to the author's thesis. A little unsettling that the reflective SRM material in the WSJ article isn't sulfur (apparently) but something proprietary of undisclosed composition.
https://www.wsj.com/science/environment/geoengineering-proje...
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What do sulfur damages to crops cost?
And can we breathe that? At some point it's gonna be noticeable, right?
we screwed up the earth so much the only way to keep it livable to is to make it smell like farts
This story about urban albedo interested me earlier [0]. Painting roofs and roads white, and simply having more green parks instead of paved areas would actually make a difference. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=39356361
Urban area is around half percent of earth area (2 mln km2 vs 510). Improving albedo there may have some local effect, but unlikely to contribute significantly to climate change mitigation.
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I love everything about The Matrix, except that the core premise makes no sense. Humans are not an energy source; at best we (very inefficiently) transform energy from one form to another. If we “scorched the sky,” humans would be at least as screwed as the robots, unless we’re getting all our energy (and tons more since we’d have to move all agriculture indoors) from nuclear or such, but in that case, what on earth…
Originally humans were used as computers, not energy source, which made more sense. Some brilliant mind changed it at some point during production.