According to astrophysicists, lunar dust is well suited for scattering sunlight. They calculated that the materials collected on the Earth's satellite are able to reduce the intensity of the energy flow of the luminary by 2%, Mir24 reports.

To implement the idea, it will be necessary to extract and sift millions of tons of dust, load them into a special device and launch dust charges into space every year, thereby supporting the "solar shield".

One of the authors of the study, Ben Bromley, said that the main advantage of this approach is that people will not interfere with the processes on Earth itself. In addition, they will not sacrifice economic development for the sake of fighting global warming. This will give a person the time and resources to achieve carbon neutrality.

Nevertheless, this project had opponents. Scientists found the idea of colleagues interesting from the point of view of science, however, in their opinion, it will be extremely difficult to implement it. This program will require a lot of money, in addition, its progress will be difficult to control due to the fact that it is on the Moon.