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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Startup Says It'll Use Huge Space Mirror to Sell Sunlight During Nighttime

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Startup Says It'll Use Huge Space Mirror to Sell Sunlight During Nighttime

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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A unique startup claims it will soon let people buy spots of sunlight reflected with a giant satellite mirror.
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      My startup is going to rent sunlight interceptors that block the extra sunlight sattelite beams that your neighbour rented and what is keeping you awake all night.

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      🤣🤣 literally the only reaction to this!!

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      WERNSTROM!!!

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      Like stealing candy from a baby…

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    Startup says it wants some more cocaine and wants to know if you know anyone with some more cocaine because some more cocaine would be fuckin’ great right now holy shit

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    It’s a grift. They came to steal VC money.

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    This gives me a great idea for a new startup! I’m going to put a giant mirror in space, and you’ll need to pay me to turn OFF the sunlight at night.

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      The people behind that startup are in tears strangling each other wishing they thought of this.

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    I’d like to have darkness during daytime. I’m not sure I would pay for it, but I’d like it very much.

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      How about these?

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    Someone watched an old Bond film.

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      Someone watched an old Bond film.

      old

      Die Another Day (2002)

      You fucking watch yourself, alright? You’re on thin ice.

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        That was 47 years ago.

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    What could possibly go wrong?

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      Certainly not blinding someone stargazing as it reorients.

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      Okay, luddite. All of the studies resoundingly show that pointing a giant space mirror down toward our collective homes is a great idea.

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    It’s so dumb uggh. Getting the same power output as the sun would need a MINIMUM surface area of the size of the area on earth it would illuminate.

    So say the use case is extending daylight time in Anchorage, Alaska during winter. You would need a mirror that has MINIMUM surface area that of Anchorage. Somehow, it would need to be in an orbit that can reliably reflect light to Anchorage at all points.

    Then, it would most likely be in low Earth orbit as putting it higher would require bigger mirrors. However, if u are in LEO, u are also moving incredibly fast. You would thus need an array of these super large mirrors.

    All of this for what? Something that an led can do incredibly easily?

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      Would it not be possible to deflect it through a lens? Couldn’t that increase the spread area significantly and because of the contrast at night you would only need a fraction of the light intensity to make an area feel well lit?

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        You don’t need a lens, just a differently shaped mirror. Their point is just that the light you capture is based on the mirror’s surface area, so if you are selling sunlight-equivalent amounts of light you would need a mirror of equal area to that you are selling. You would not need such a large mirror to sell an area of dimmer light, and you would not need a lens.

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        • A convex mirror could work, sure. A lens would be impossible to construct for the size necessary.
        • I don’t get what u mean by “contrast at night”, but sure - let’s assume that you would need 5% of the power at noon. You would still need a mirror with a surface area of 5% of the area you are illuminating.
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    Modern day startups: lays out a dumb idea.

    Valuation: $3B

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    Wernstrom!

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    Not exactly a new idea. Soviets tried it. Expenses were huge, and something that nobody thought of much back then is that nature would surely found itself hanging upside down…

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    Ants can probably tell you this is not a good idea

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