Moving heat at planetary scale.

Research into raising surface temperature: orbital solar reflectors and statite mirrors, and albedo modification of polar deposits — with their energy budgets and reversibility studied honestly.

Mirrors: Orbital reflectors under study
Albedo: Polar-cap modification modeling
Reversible?: A first-order design constraint

// WHERE THE LINE IS

Concept and modeling only. We do not deploy planetary-scale optics.

Horizon: Multi-decade

Energy, not optimism

Warming a world is an energy-balance problem. The research question is whether any reflector architecture closes that balance within a credible mass and time budget. We model it, cost it, and report when it does not close.

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Research the upper ladder. Deploy the lower one.

Partner on the science, or put the deployable building blocks on a site today.

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