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Receive sunlight, like from the Sun?
Wild plan to control sunlight by installing 50,000 mirrors in space could wreak havoc on Earth, experts warn: ‘Major adverse health consequences’
Now you can buy sunlight, wow! [sarcasm]
“The proposed scale of orbital deployment would represent a significant alteration of the natural night-time light environment at a planetary scale,” leaders of the European Biological Rhythms Society (EBRS), the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, the Japanese Society for Chronobiology and the Canadian Society for Chronobiology declared in letters to the US Federal Communications Commission
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California–based startup, Reflect Orbital, is poised to secure permission to launch a 60–foot (18.3–metre) prototype mirror into orbit to beam sunlight back to the Earth’s surface.
Reflect Orbital, which has already raised more than $28 million (£20.8 million) from investors, says it plans to harness the vast quantities of sunlight that normally pass Earth by, and sell it on demand to people, companies and governments.
Mr Nowack says the company will charge about $5,000 (£3,700) for an hour of sunlight
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