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Title: why cant this happen? Post by: WishIStartedSooner on September 19, 2013, 04:34:10 PM what, exactly, is stopping us from putting an enormous set of solar panels into space and beaming electricity down to earth that's derived from direct exposure to the sun?
would it cost too much? seems worthy of all the governments working together, in my eyes. is there a technical reason? does the technology already exist? do we already do this and it turned out to be a crappy idea? what am i missing? Title: Re: why cant this happen? Post by: greyhawk on September 19, 2013, 04:45:34 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power
Title: Re: why cant this happen? Post by: WishIStartedSooner on September 19, 2013, 05:19:00 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power thank you. just what i needed to read. i bet it becomes feasible soon. Title: Re: why cant this happen? Post by: FirstAscent on September 19, 2013, 06:17:05 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power thank you. just what i needed to read. i bet it becomes feasible soon. I bet it becomes feasible not soon. Title: Re: why cant this happen? Post by: masyveonk on September 19, 2013, 08:08:38 PM what, exactly, is stopping us from putting an enormous set of solar panels into space and beaming electricity down to earth that's derived from direct exposure to the sun? would it cost too much? seems worthy of all the governments working together, in my eyes. is there a technical reason? does the technology already exist? do we already do this and it turned out to be a crappy idea? what am i missing? Much cheaper to keep it at earths ground. You play some scifi game now? |