[PW] Re: Orbiting solar shades

[Ellen Cousins]

Here is an article about your article, if that helps. It describes the 
*cloud* in more detail:

http://uanews.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/7/wa/SRStoryDetails?ArticleID=13269

It includes a picture, but it is a space view.

HTH

Ellen C.


Karen Lofstrom wrote:
> I'm trying to access a November 2006 publication in the PNAS journal,
> titled: Feasibility of cooling the Earth with a cloud of small
> spacecraft near the inner Lagrange point (L1) It's at
> <http://intl.pnas.org/cgi/content/short/0608163103v1> I'm not at a
> university and I don't want to pay $10 for a look at one article --
> particularly when I'm interested in the figures, not so much the text.
> I wonder what the cloud would look like from earth, as I'm interested
> in featuring it in a science fiction thingie I'm writing. Not a major
> part of the story, just something the folks on the ground see and take
> completely for granted.
> 
> This is a long shot, but if any of you have access to the article and
> could send me any relevant illustrations, or point me to a place where
> such might be found, or, heck, even speculate yourselves about what it
> might look like from the ground, I would appreciate it.
>