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Every time someone mentions "oh no solar is producing too much energy" I think of this deranged Forbes article from a few years back.
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Microsofts billionaire founder Bill Gates is financially backing the development of sun dimming technology that would potentially......{blahblah global cooling}This is obviously in the context of attempting to mitigate global warming, which was caused by... you guessed it, mostly fossil fuel use.
Nobody is proposing blocking out the sun like Mr. Burns. More like reflecting a tiny percentage of solar radiation to prevent our oceans from boiling or once-in-a-century superstorms that, oh I don't know, flood the mountains of Tennessee from becoming yearly occurrences.
This sounds like the start of a sci-fi apocalypse novel
Or Highlander 2 lol (don't watch it, it's horrible)
Or an episode of The Simpsons.
Or the Neal Stephenson Novel "Termination Shock" where rogue Billionaires shoot elemental sulfur into the upper atmosphere and it works and nothing bad happens because of it.
Reading the novel I was always waiting for basic chemistry to catch up to them (There are a few reactions going Sulfur + Ozone + UV Light > acid rain/ heat trapping isolation layer/ all sorts of cool stuff) and it was a disappointmet to me this was never discussed. I expected more from Stephenson. This book read more like a hazeography of the trillionaires club.