🚀 go-pugleaf

Getting a little global shade the hard way;  but without question it's
more than worth it because, there's a whole lot more at stake, and
otherwise at investment return here than merely obtaining that nicely
diffused spot of shade.

3X L2 (moon L2X3) Tethered Tug = solar isolation worthy of -22.5 w/m2
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/cf.html#cf
A basalt tethered mass (easily made from and otherwise extracted
entirely from the moon) of accommodating 1e12 kg placed at 194,100 km
away from the backside of the moon, or essentially 578,500 km from
Earth, that's moving along at 1539.556 km/s = 4.097e15 N (4.178e14 kg
or 9.211e14 lbs) of force just to start off with.

Perhaps the honest notions of our utilizing a tethered tug of merely
4.097e15 N worth of applied force, as such only has its off-world
meaning to those few of us with actual remorse, and for otherwise
those of us as having given an honest tinkers damn worth of our
compassion towards salvaging this badly damaged environment of Earth,
of an environment that's simply not going to sustain itself, and
without intervention is only going to get itself hotter as time and
that nearby mascon of a moon accomplishes its unavoidable GW(global
warming) thing.

Of course, this greater than monumental effort of relocating our moon
isn't going to transpire overnight, or even within the next few years,
as it'll demand a good decade of creating those substantial basalt
fiber tethers and of mostly robotics subsequently relocating 1e12 kg
of that moon out towards the 3X worth of or moon's L2 (roughly 194,100
km away from the backside).  As the moon gets with the agenda of
moving out, either additional mass is further contributed or otherwise
allowed to drift away from that tethered CM(counter mass), thereby
giving us a fully interactive method of control over every km step of
the way towards Earth's L1.

The moon's new and improved L1 of accommodating the greatly extended
LSE-CM/ISS (w/tether dipole element that could reach to within 2r of
mother Earth) will become part of the moon's parking brake,
interactively deployed upon approaching the relative gravity
nullification or quiet zone of Earth's L1.  This LSE-CM/ISS will a;so
have been a major robotic task, taking up most of the century in order
to accomplish.

This multi-task application of tethers and various placements of mass
might not demand nearly as much applied mass as I've suggested,
instead possibly as little as 1e9 kg at 3X L2, but it's still going to
be seriously spendy.  There are far more positive considerations than
negative, and the greater values per each positive consideration is
worth at least 10 fold more than each negative aspect.
-
Brad Guth