Kenzo - That's interesting! I'd like to understand more about this 'beaming of the captured energy back to Earth'. I've not ever seen electrical energy be able to be transmitted/transferred through air...other than lightning. Anyway, a 1 km solar array in space orbiting around the Earth seems like a pretty doable thing even with the current technology we already have. It's really just building a bigger one than they have so far.
I'm not sure how something like this would go over with the public here on Earth though, because you'd be able to see it pretty easily, even during the day. Plus, something like this would definitely cast a massive shadow on the ground where it was between the Sun and the Earth. This would likely be something people would object to, I think.
Anyway, great post!
Edit - Oh, and I'm 100% positive the liberals would scream bloody murder over something like this because, well, just because they bitch about every other single thing. And, as long as they have someone's ear, they're going to continue doing it...about more and more stuff! Even though this is solar power, the liberals would probably conjure up some theme about it being racist because white people launched it and they're stealing all the 'poor people's' free energy (or something)!
I'm not sure how something like this would go over with the public here on Earth though, because you'd be able to see it pretty easily, even during the day. Plus, something like this would definitely cast a massive shadow on the ground where it was between the Sun and the Earth. This would likely be something people would object to, I think.
Anyway, great post!
Edit - Oh, and I'm 100% positive the liberals would scream bloody murder over something like this because, well, just because they bitch about every other single thing. And, as long as they have someone's ear, they're going to continue doing it...about more and more stuff! Even though this is solar power, the liberals would probably conjure up some theme about it being racist because white people launched it and they're stealing all the 'poor people's' free energy (or something)!