(08-01-2025, 09:25 PM)FCD Wrote: 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)!
It seems they have allready tested the beaming in Earth years ago.....shorter distance/low power.....but it did work .
The space solar farms could be the big next thing coming. Liberals would cry sure . The shadow thing is issue yes, i can hear someone yelling " hey! stop blocking my sun!
There is risk also, what if meteorites strike it down ? There should be system in place to see incoming particles , move the array to avoid collision.
But what if big volcano event ? that creates ash layer to atmosphere, blocking the beaming.....it has happened in history i think.