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Can we send a bunch of these ion-powered planes to fly on solar power in the stratosphere, more efficiently and rapidly generating ozone than the natural process?


You won't be able to get to the stratosphere with low efficiency propellers. And you would need an absurd number of them to make any difference.


As someone else suggested before this comment was posted, use a balloon for lift?

Maybe combine the whole thing with project loon like internet relays. With a source of thrust like this it would be much easier to keep them where you want them.


That's exactly what I wrote in a response to the parent an hour or so ago!

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