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Quote by: KSoDBartman  Yeah, right. I'll believe it when I see it. The amount of energy involved in global climate patterns, and even in local weather systems, is so phenomenally large that trying to change it would be like trying to knock a freight train off the tracks with a wiffle bat. |
One mirror of the proposed system provides any portion of either shielding from the Earth 1 Gigawatt of power or increasing the thermal energy delivered to the Earth by 1 Gigawatt of power, or any fraction in between. Many thousands of these mirrors are proposed.
The intensity of power produced by one mirror is too intense to be allowed to simply illuminate at a 1:1 ratio. Such an intensity would be like going from Alaska to the Equator, it just wouldn't be beneficial. The energy from one mirror would have to be distributed over 10 square miles to prevent burning the local environment. When reflecting the energy away from the Earth, a significant cooling takes place locally, similar to cloud cover.
The proposed WCS is more than possible, it is practical.