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[โ€“] SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every time someone mentions "oh no solar is producing too much energy" I think of this deranged Forbes article from a few years back.

alt-textMicrosofts billionaire founder Bill Gates is financially backing the development of sun dimming technology that would potentially......{blahblah global cooling}

[โ€“] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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.