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sophiecentaur
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Why not? It could, if engineered perfectly, send all the sunlight arriving at the Moon, onto the Earth's surface. That could increase the energy arriving around the full Moon condition by about 1/16. The mirrors would need to focus and to track, perfectly. But that amount of extra energy would be more than any other source that has added to the Sun's energy input to the Earth.rootone said:It wouldn't increase the greenhouse gas effect as such
But one needs to ask why we'd do that. It could well be more in our interest to use mirrors on the Earth's surface to get rid of a lot of the Sun's battering.