[PW] Re: Orbiting solar shades

[Charles Early]

If you're still interested a few months from now you can read the whole 
article for free at the PNAS website.  According to 
http://www.pnas.org/misc/about.shtml, back issues become open access after 
a six-month embargo.

At 05:41 AM 1/8/2007, you 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.
>
>--
>Karen Lofstrom
>_______________________________________________
>Project Wombat
>list at project-wombat.org
>http://www.project-wombat.org/

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