Credit for Reducing Sunshine

Komerath, Narayanan; Deepak, Ravi; Deepak, A.

doi:10.18086/solar.2021.01.09

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“…In prior work we have discussed the Glitter Belt architecture [23][24]. It proposes a steadily growing number of solar-powered ultralight reflector surfaces, floated at about 30.5 km above mean sea-level and staying aloft continuously for periods of months if not years.…”

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“…Several of those goals can be supported by expanding the "CEU" metric into a broader "Nature Credit" for reforestation, and cleaning up the land, water and air. We [24] suggested a range of equivalences for Nature Credits, including one between sunlight reflection and CEUs as a starting point. It is possible to reduce, stop and reverse Atmospheric Heat Retention, in a safe, controlled, monitored and reversible manner using the Glitter Belt architecture.…”

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An Aerospace Approach To Counter Climate Change

Narayanan¹,

Komerath²,

Deepak³

et al. 2022

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Combating ClimateChange requires temporally and spatially-resolved atmospheric and solar data planetwide. The Glitter Belt HALE architecture of reflective vehicles serves both as meteorology platforms and as a scalable, reversible option to reduce insolation. The 30.5km altitude and 12-hour night glide requirements, rendezvous and swarm operation for high-precision distributed antenna applications all pose unique challenges, but are shown feasible with the present approach. Conceptual design, small scale design-build-fly tests, and dynamic flight simulation are used to remove uncertainties and derive system properties. Scale-up to reduce atmospheric heat retention is viable in concert with GHG reduction and efficiency improvement measures. Given international will, Global Warming can be controlled in verified, safe and reversible manner that uniquely satisfies all guidance from the National Academies.

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confidence: 99%