Minimum mass solar shield for terrestrial climate control

McInnes, C.R. (2002) Minimum mass solar shield for terrestrial climate control. JBIS, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 55 (9-10). pp. 307-311. ISSN 0007-084X

Abstract

The use of a large solar shield located sunward of the Sun-Earth interior Lagrange point is considered to offset increases in mean global surface temperature due to enhanced greenhouse warming. The three-body mechanics of the problem are investigated to optimize the shield location, thus minimizing the shield mass and improving on previous studies of this concept. While shield mass is minimized, the required mass is still of order 1011 kg to offset an enhancement of greenhouse warming of order 2 K. Clearly, such schemes require significant technological capabilities, although the optimization presented in this paper reduces the scale of the problem to some extent.

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	6234
  Dates:	Date Event 2002 Published
  Subjects:	Technology > Mechanical engineering and machinery
  Department:	Faculty of Engineering > Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  Depositing user:	Strathprints Administrator
  Date deposited:	12 Jun 2008
  Last modified:	04 Dec 2024 11:25
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  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/6234