I’ve seen a lot of plans to stop global warming but nothing like this one. The plan sounds crazy to say the least but, as you read through the Telegraph’s article from yesterday, you discover that NASA has funded two scientists for this pilot project. 

According to The Telegraph, “astronomer Dr Roger Angel, at the University of Arizona, (says) the trillions of mirrors would have to be fired one million miles above the earth using a huge cannon with a barrel of 0.6 miles across.

The gun would pack 100 times the power of conventional weapons and need an exclusion zone of several miles before being fired.

Despite the obvious obstacles – including an estimated $350 trillion (£244trn) price tag for the project – Dr Angel is confident of getting the project off the ground.

He said: “What we have developed is certainly effective and a method guaranteed to work.

“Tests are ongoing but we expect to be ready to launch within 20 or 30 years time. Things that take a few decades are not that futuristic.”

Dr Angel has already secured NASA funding for a pilot project and British inventor Tod Todeschini, 38, was commissioned to build a scaled-down version of the gun. ”

Full story in The Telegraph.

Watch this video on Dr Angel’s space sunshield project.