SAINTEK | TD – Several scientists who are members of the Astrophysics Center research team at Harvard and the Smithsonian initiated countermeasures to global warming due to climate change by utilizing moon dust.
This was written in a report in the PLOS Climate Journal on February 8, 2023.
Previously, many experts tried to develop ideas by using protective objects such as screens and also dust to prevent the sun’s heat from reaching the earth.
The effort is calculated to be effective if it can reduce 1-2% of the sun’s heat on earth.
The University of Utah is also not behind in researching the effectiveness and efficiency of using dust to prevent 100% of the sun’s heat from reaching the earth.
The analysis by University of Utah researchers yielded predictions of the most appropriate materials to use in fighting the climate crisis. The experts then find the most suitable dust is used.
The experts also researched the usable capacity of the dust, its nature, and the most probable orbit.
But the costs and efforts to realize the use of moon dust to prevent solar radiation from further aggravating climatic conditions cannot be said to be small.
However, experts say the cost required to utilize moon dust is not as big as the cost required if earth dust is sent to a certain point in the orbit between the earth and the sun.
The idea of using this dust came from observing experts on the creation of planets around distant stars. When planet formation is always unpredictable, drifting astronomical dust will form a ring around the host star. The ring of astronomical dust then reduces the star’s heat radiation and accelerates planetary cooling.
“That’s where the idea came from; if we take a small amount of matter and put it in a certain orbit between the earth and the sun, and then scatter it, we can block most of the sun’s rays with very little mass,” said Ben Bromley.
Ben Bromly is a professor of physics and astronomy who is the lead author of the moon dust research. Besides Ben, Scott Kenyon, a member of the research co-author, said the use of moon dust would greatly help curb climate change.
“It’s amazing to contemplate how moon dust—which takes more than four billion years to produce—could help slow Earth’s temperature rise, a problem that took us less than 300 years to produce,” said Scott Kenyon.
