Frederick Bott
2 min readFeb 22, 2022

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This is no surprise to me, as I’ve had cause to investigate solar monitoring data in my role as a Systems Engineer, working on satellite communications systems previously. What my Systems Engineering experience screams here though, is to beware drawing or implying false conclusions, resulting in partial fix attempts that can do more damage than good.
We need to keep in mind that the sun is the single source of energy, upon which all life is balanced, in a kind of equilibrium.
Upsetting the equilibrium is what we have done so far, and what needs to change for survival.
If we are receiving more solar power at ground level, we need to put it to human use, instead of continuing to put Earth stored energies to use.
Wind and hydro, for example are forms of stored kinetic Energy, the use of which we can’t undo. Imagine the Earth slowing down and / or breaking outwards from orbit.
Geo Engineering might in theory increase Earth albedo, but that would entail also an increase in solar pressure on Earth from the sun, which would influence our orbital trajectory whilst not providing any means of compensating, by increasing the rotation speed of Earth, for example.
It should occur to us, when we look closely, that the vegetation of Earth has a positive motor effect on Earth rotation. Reduce the energy to that, or the amount of vegetation, and Earth starts to slow, as evidenced by the historical record of leap seconds insertion.

Significant human solar power infrastructure would also have positive motor effect.
Right there, nature is telling us what to do. We can listen or not, it seems to me.
It is telling us to connect to the sun, like all of nature is connected.
Anyone can read more around "Kardashev Engineering".

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Frederick Bott
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