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Energy is the baseline fundamental for everything. Wars have been fought for this precious resource. Currently we get it from fossil fuels, which is running ou
by blackrock 6y ago
Energy is the baseline fundamental for everything. Wars have been fought for this precious resource.
Currently we get it from fossil fuels, which is running out, heavily pollutes, and destroys the natural ecosystem. Nuclear was discovered, but it’s super complicated to handle and radioactive. Renewables are hit and miss, and must require a massive energy storage system in battery or water storage potential energy. Solar doesn’t always shine. Wind doesn’t always blow.
But in space, energy is infinite. For as far as we can see.
The problem is getting up there, and bringing it back down to earth.
But, what if we can harness it? In the form of solar collectors, and beam it back down to earth as microwaves or lasers. We can have vast fields of microwave collectors that can convert this energy back into electricity. Or laser receptors that can convert the laser back into electricity. No more pollution. No more environmental degradation. What you get is pure, clean, energy. All year round, day or night, rain or snow.
The challenges are great. The impossibilities are high. But the consequences of not achieving this is far worse.
- concordDance 6y agoSpace solar is pointless given there are plenty of deserts with lots of sunshine all around the world that can be tiled with solar panels. Just need a little bit of energy storage.
- inglor_cz 6y ago... and transmission. Getting energy from Sahara to Stockholm with tolerable losses is no easy feat.
- concordDance 6y ago5% losses IIRC.
- bregma 6y agoAnd need to get rid of the pesky people who live there with their needs and wants and their bombs and their guns.