Andrew Meulenberg wrote:
> On the other hand, with uncontrolled population growth . . .
>
Population growth is not uncontrolled. On the contrary, it has largely
stopped. What I mean is, the only age cohort that is growing is people in
the Third World over age 40. Their numbers are increasing
Dear Jed,
Among the advantages of my system is the ability to provide a low-cost (yet
ecologically sound
and man-rated) mass-transfer system as a low-earth-orbit "waystation" that
can then provide
massive boosts to interplanetary transportation (e.g. to L1). The ability
to transfer people from
That is great stuff! Thanks. Your proposal is low earth orbit. I have heard
of others like this. The one linked to at BBC.com is for a very distant
space umbrella, at earth-sun L1. I don't understand how that would work. It
seems harder to set up. But the technical details and astronomy are over
Dear Jed,
You included this link, which I thought might have been referring to my
papers since some of the numbers agreed with mine.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160425-how-a-giant-space-umbrella-could-stop-global-warming
* On closer look, I saw that the author did not suggest some of
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