... question is whether we are up to the challenge of achieving the potential that is now possible within Space Age 2.0. A magnetic solar shield for Earth or Mars. A new perspective If the Earth were an apple, the skin of the apple would represent...
... $120 billion. Although there have been scientific and practical benefits from the ISS, the benefits of a solar shield that could prevent massive destruction on Earth is in any reasonable value-system a social and economic benefit that...
...cluster of such inflatable structures with a magnetic field charge level of perhaps 1 or 2 tesla (or 10,000 to 20,000 gauss) to create a solar shield system against not only radiation but coronal mass ejection ions as well. The figure (right) is from...