I'm sitting in the office, on a winter evening, and its dark outside. The streetlights are on, but its still quite dark.
Has anybody ever studied using mirrors in space to provide a sort of extended twilight to dense urban centers?
Sure, it might not be a good idea to have 24-hour lighting, for animals or for humans. But if satellites reflected sunlight onto Paris up to 22h30, for example, that would certainly reduce the electricity bills and improve safety. It would also bring the space age into everyone's life. And there are lots of dense urban centers that could sign contracts for something like that.
Has this been discussed somewhere on the web? I've never looked.
