Re: A last resort attack on global warming

[Jed Rothwell]

I wrote:

"Two or three modest space elevators with perhaps 10 times of capacity each . . ."

I meant 10 tons of payload capacity, per trip. I think a trip would take about a week with the primitive space elevators now being planned. The Space Shuttle capacity is 29 tons. The DC-3 payload was about 9 tons. One DC-3 full of equipment and supplies every few days would be enough to build a gigantic mylar shade, but it would not be enough to build a significant number of solar power generators. However, once a space elevator is in place, it can be used to bootstrap a larger space elevator.

- Jed