It’ll only make a difference during the times in which it is being hit by a beam that wouldn’t otherwise hit the earth, since whatever it reflects will be offset by some shadow behind it. I wonder if, as a matter of orbital mechanics, it would be possible to make the satellite orbit in such a way so that it never casts a shadow and is always in the sunlight.

Lets send that heat down in a large vertical column piercing the entire way thru the atmosphere!

Birds can cook themselves in it!

Nobody will get rained on near this beam, so less big money tied up in umbrellas!

And think of the tornados that will form!

This thing will create the need for so much progress to undo its effects!

Brilliant!