That wouldn’t stop the atmosphere from trapping the heat, right?
A long time ago I read what I think was an Arthur C. Clarke book in which they'd fixed global warming by plating the Sahara with mirrored foil, increasing the Earth's albedo. So... would that work
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True but it would stop the *ground* from trapping a lot of the heat
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I feel like you're asking for a lot of flash-fried birds
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I still like your "turn off the sun for a few seconds" idea, frankly.
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Solar panels are practically black. They have to be to actually collect the energy. And all energy you collect, eventually ends up as heat in the atmosphere – unless you use it to power high efficiency transmitters (radio to X-rays) that radiate in atmospheric transparent bands.
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The better way if you're insistent in having solar panel is to build a swarm of it in medium orbit and then connect it all into a sphere to plunge the earth to eternal night yet supplying it with inexhaustible amount of energy.
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My plan is to hurl politicians and climate change deniers towards the sun at extremely high velocity to adjust the planet’s orbit. As a bonus we get longer years.
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Isn't the Sahara already a pretty high-albedo place anyway ? Surely if there are gains to be had it's over the dark parts : the forests and the sea.
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Perhaps, but it's a lot harder to mirror a forest or a sea than a desert, and there's more living things dependent on the light you're blocking.
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