10 surprisingly easy sources of alternative energy
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Space-based solar power
Since the sun's energy is unaffected in space by the 24-hour cycle of night and day, weather, seasons, or the filtering effect of Earth's atmospheric gases, proposals are underway to put solar panels in orbit and beam the energy down for use on Earth. The technological breakthrough here involves wireless power transmission, which could be performed using microwave beams.
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Extraordinary, this is great :)
Forget the difficulty of mining the moon, fusion hasn't reached breakeven point for more than a few milliseconds in 50 years of research. This is not a "new" let alone an "easy" way to provide power, it's a theorectical way to create power that is not technically feasible at the current time, and may never be economically feasible.
Am i missing something, getting energy from out of space and the moon. We have all the energy and space on our planet we need and yet getting energy from the moon makes sence, come on, sounds crazy to me, mabey these people should become politicans.
Lets not forget that the 'microwaves beams' are unhealthy.
FIRST AND FOREMOST LOG ON TO ENCYCLOPEDIA THEN AUTOMATICALLY YOU WILL TAKE ATLEAST ONE STEP IN ORDER TO SAVE OUR MOTHER EARTH. THANKYOU...
All this energy is around us and we've not noticed it until recently. The only problem with Lunar Helium-3 is to get there is to add yet more pollution into our atmosphere :(
Oslo, Norway fuels its city buses with methane from sewage and Swedish cities do the same! America wastes sewage, polluting vast areas with it due to the availability of cheap oil. This will change in the next few decades as oil prices are about to skyrocket due to Asian demand for more and the changes China made in the Yuan recently. Good, topsoil building fertilizer can be had from bio-gassing sewage, and American poop is by far the richest in the world - even exceeding that of Indian pigs in.... More
I am utterly incredulous. How foolish can you get? Easy?! "All we need to do is mine the moon and invent a way to wireless transfer power from space". Let's not even mention economics!
As a young kid in the 50's I read about this in Colliers Magazine in great detail. The scary thing was that weather control was also shown. I believe if we did develop control we would have lost control and created a nightmare.
As a young kid in the 50's I read about this in Colliers Magazine in great detail. The scary thing was that weather control was also shown. I believe if we did develop control we would have lost control and created a nightmare.
These are all interesting … easy? … no. Interesting? yes.
this last one reminds me of part of a sci-fi comic called Transmetropolitan where in order to solve an energy crisis they covered mercury in solar panels and beamed the energy back to earth.
in regards to the solar panels in space beaming the energy back to earth via microwave; this was the core of the "sts", sattelite transport system, of jimmy carter's administration, which was a plan to do exactly that. i have the original plans sent to me via the white house during his tenure as president.
These are all swell ideas with smart brains behind them! As resources become few and far between it's positive to know that there are easier approaches.
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