From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Sun Dec 22 2002 - 03:16:30 MST
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Avatar Polymorph wrote:
> I've heard of microthin shields to block the sun's light over Earth as a
> space weapon - stopping plant growth and energy input - but could the same
Not necessarily weapon, with a gossamer Fresnel or a mirror you could nix
the global warming, if latter be landing.
> idea in reverse apply - a huge microthin mirror or series of mirrors
> focussing on the Earth or parts of it as a kind of giant focussing burner
> beam?
A very large phased array microwave radiator could generate damaging
microwave fluxes at Earth surface, or in space. At the extreme side, you
could radiate some MT/s matterenergy equivalent.
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