Title: How to effectively protect the earth from global warming by means of advanced sunlight shield equipment

Authors: Hideyo Murakami

Addresses: Kyushu Institute of Information Sciences, 4-2-4-1, Jigyo Tyuouku, Fukuoka-city, Japan

Abstract: This paper proposes a set of Advanced Sunlight Shield Equipment (ASSE) composed of a flat balloon with an attitude control function. Balloon's surface has a mirror function. When ASSE is deployed in the stratosphere, its surface reflects sunlight to space effectively. The gross area of many sets of ASSE amounts to about 2.6 × 10⁶ square kilometre, and when they are deployed, the global average atmospheric temperature value decreases by about 0.7 degrees centigrade. A total cost of ASSE for the average atmospheric temperature decrease is roughly estimated, and it is 1 to 30 × 10¹⁰ euro/year.

Keywords: global warming; sunlight shield equipment; cost; flat balloons; attitude control; mirror function; sunlight reflection; atmospheric temperature decrease.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGW.2012.049436

International Journal of Global Warming, 2012 Vol.4 No.3/4, pp.330 - 345

Received: 10 Nov 2011
Accepted: 12 May 2012
Published online: 13 Dec 2014 *

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