Astrophysicists have proposed to cool the Earth with a plume of dust from a cannon on the moon

(ORDO NEWS) — The scientific concept describes a “solar shield” from the soil, which must first be mined on the moon, and then launched into space at a distance of 1.6 million km from our planet.

Scientists believe that such a barrier will be able to partially absorb solar energy that heats the earth’s atmosphere.

The scientific concept describes a “solar shield” from the soil, which must first be mined on the moon, and then launched into space at a distance of 1.6 million km from our planet.

Scientists believe that such a barrier will be able to partially absorb solar energy that heats the earth’s atmosphere.

American scientists from the University of Utah have proposed a geoengineering project to cool the Earth with the help of lunar dust.

It provides for the construction on the Moon of a soil collection facility and a special gun that will eject these particles into interstellar space.

Astrophysicists from Utah have calculated that lunar dust is well suited for scattering sunlight.

According to their calculations, the materials collected on the Earth’s satellite are capable of reducing the intensity of the energy flux of the star by 2%.

To implement their idea, it will be necessary to extract and sift millions of tons of dust, load them into a railgun (a tool that accelerates a projectile between two guides due to an electromagnetic pulse), and launch dust charges into space every year to maintain a “solar shield”.

According to calculations, dust plumes need to be shot at a distance of 1.6 million km from the Earth.

Astrophysicist Ben Bromley, who led the study, called the main advantage of this approach the ability not to interfere in the processes on the Earth itself and not sacrifice economic development in order to combat global warming.

This will give people time and resources to develop effective technologies for decarbonization and achieving carbon neutrality.

Colleagues of the authors of the concept of dispersing lunar dust from other American scientific institutions called the idea interesting from the point of view of science, but difficult to put into practice, since such a program would cost a huge amount of money, and its progress would be difficult to control due to its location on the Moon.

“We are seeing a surge of interest in space geoengineering schemes. They were long considered highly impractical due to technical and economic considerations.

But the continuing decline in launch costs is piqued by scientists, which is what gives rise to such ideas, ”Ted Parson, an expert in environmental law at the University of California, told reporters.

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