Scientists have found a solution to the opposite

As France prepares to experience a new episode of heat wave and confrontation To the disturbing conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeIt is difficult to question global warming. Thus, faced with this situation, many scientists are trying to find a solution to lower the temperatures on our planet. today, A group of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled a promising project.

Get out of the spaceships, put the space bubbles

To do this, scientists were interested in the concept proposed by astronomer Roger Engel. The latter imagined a cloud of small spacecraft being sent into space to help shield Earth from the sun’s radiation. Using this principle, the goal was tomitigate or vice versa Climate change. With the discovery of a new hole in the ozone layer, MIT scientists have embraced this idea by improving it. So, Instead of spaceships, they replaced them with silicon bubbles.

The project called Space Bubbles is very simple A huge sun visor made of several small bubbles attached to each other made of molten silicone. This shield, the size of which is close to the size of Brazil, will be sent 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. Why at this distance? Simply because it is From the Lagrange point L1And the The place between the earth and the sun where the gravity of our star and the gravity of our planet cancel out. In fact, the shield could, in theory, float without being attracted by one of the two stars.

2% off to save the planet

According to the researchers who performed lab tests, If 1.8% of the solar radiation could deviate, it would be enough to completely reverse the global warming curve.

Unfortunately, such an anti-warming shield will not be sent into space tomorrow. MIT researchers say this project is still just a concept. Moreover, they still have to Find solutions to overcome many obstacles for example Blowing bubbles from spacea guarantee The shield is resistant to meteor impacts and that is Still good enough to filter out a large portion Sun rays. On this last point, the scientists announced that they could modify or destroy the shield remotely by blasting certain bubbles.