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Now you'll be able to purchase sunlight at night! (mashable.com)

submitted 2 months ago by werefreeatlast@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don’t even want to imagine the environmental studies and hurdles they’ll have to jump through to artificially alter an areas day/night cycle. There’s a laundry list of environmental concerns that I’m sure any homeowner or eco-activist worth their salt would jump on. Not to mention glare and impacts to air traffic, on and on.

Would make my solar panels pretty darn effective though. Would probably be great for SAD in winter too. Clever idea. Not sure I can get behind it though.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh Mr X guy, so you want to fly a Teslas into space? Are there environmental impacts? Oh. Yes, one more million. Okay looks like you've covered all the possible impacts, you have our go for launch!

[–] Grippler@feddit.dk 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Sending a rocket on a ridiculously stupid task with no useful purpose is not even remotely close to having the same negative impact as this has the potential to. It's so far apart that it is honestly quite stupid to even attempt to compare them.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh wait....

Oh Mr X guy, so you want to fly a big ass mirror into space? Are there environmental impacts? Oh. Yes, one more million. Okay looks like you've covered all the possible impacts, you have our go for launch! We might need a few more millions of reasons to keep the masses at bay please. Thank you!

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

Honestly if X guy could please hurry up and buy this company.

I need them to go bankrupt or have become illegal before they send some actual junk into space. And if they do send something it needs to have stupid decisions by a higher up so it cant actually remain up there and ruin the nights further.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

you think profit obsessed c-suites give even a moments consideration about environmental concerns?