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Fossil fuels are dead (and here's why)
- bigiain 5y agoI wonder what the implications of 70% power transmission loss from 60TW of microwave power beaned down from orbit are? Or the implications of the ability to deliver 30% of 60TW worth of microwave energy to the target of your choice just about anywhere on the planet?
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoThose implications made it into a movie in 1984: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noah%27s_Ark_Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noah%27s_Ark_Principle [2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086911/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086911/ No blockbuster, but watchable, even today. Emmerichs 1st!
- Clewza313 5y agoShame about the clickbait title: something like "How SpaceX Starship makes orbital power solar stations possible" would be more informative.
- bigiain 5y agoNot gonna lie, the urge to editorialise there was very high...