Love this idea for a story.
As an alternative - it could be the oil producing countries, not aliens - seeking shade earth to disrupt solar and wind energy, and return to oil dominance.
As an alternative - it could be the oil producing countries, not aliens - seeking shade earth to disrupt solar and wind energy, and return to oil dominance.
Step One: build a machine that can cool the Earth, solving global warming Once and For All.
Step Two: demand the governments of the Earth pay you $1 trillion to turn it off at the appropriate time.
It should give people pause that with all the push for more renewables in California and Germany, they now have among the most expensive electricity on Earth.
Solving global warming, turning off the earth iceball machine when it's time? Easily worth $100 trillion. OP just has no supervillain potential.
"I demand the sum of... $1 million dollars!" -- Dr. Evil
Perhaps building unreliable energy infrastructure dependent on favorable climatic conditions is not the greatest idea. Especially if there's going to be major climate change. How's Germany doing again with all its solar lol.