I do love SCI-FI! Thanks for the great story of folly land.

It's crucial to consider sustainability in all technological advancements.

Although the eventual cost may be cheaper than conventional generation methods, that cost savings will "not" be shared with the consumer. The savings will be considered to offset the cost of maintaining the green power collecting systems in space and the central receivers on the ground. So our electricity bills will continue to climb, but it will now be green energy were paying for. So there will still be a consumer incentive to reduce his local dependent on the grid.

Well let’s see, Nikolai Tesla solved the energy problem more than a hundred years ago, why not go with his invention and make the world energy efficient once for all?

@mehrnazzandieh9366

14 күн бұрын

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@leschortos9196

12 күн бұрын

Because uncle Sam ain't gonna give the whole world free power.

Green..??? I disagree. If you bring in more energy than the Earth has been getting for billions of years, that extra energy will create an equal and opposite effect, heating the Earth.

The challenge is getting the "generated" power to Earth's surface without frying everything in its path. Still have issues with maintenance, too, since all kinds of nasty things in space destroy whatever they touch.

Once the proper understanding of how the weather works is finally taken on board, then things will move a lot faster. 'Electric Weather Mechanics'- Movements in the atmosphere are not caused by heating (that's a by-product) as previously guessed. They are caused by electrical currents running through the atmosphere. With the Highs being the peaks of the returning current radiating from the load (earth) on the circuit (sun/earth connection), with the Lows being the new electrical inputs from the sun. This is more clearly understood and which conventional maths guesswork meteorology still totally ignores. With the voltage differential between the negatively charged earth at zero volts rising up through the atmosphere by about 100 Volts per metre, upto the positively charged ionosphere at about 100,000 Volts and so proving, due to being a separation of charge, is an electric field.

Wow I fully admit that I am too old and my brain is too small to grasp any of this. However, if SpaceX says they can do this I believe them.

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Isn't there going to be a future problem with all these spent satellites in geosynchronous orbit?

What is the theoretical limit on the energy imported in this way? that is a serious question because I do not see one beyond our ability to launch satellites. We could easily duplicate the energy we get from the sun, for instance. These things must be aimed with a high degree of precision to hit the receiver areas. Their controllers can designate a new receiver area at any time to provide for expanding the grid. They are already talking about restricting the power of the microwave transmitters which implies transmitter surplus, possibly redundancy, is being designed into the system, probably as a reliability matter. These things can be converted to weapons by enabling higher power and/or targeting many transmitters to use a falsely designated receiver at ant spot on the globe. How would your city do with the entire energy sent to your continent diverted to city hall, for example? In the best of circumstances, because we will have placed the entire planet into a microwave oven, global warming will be real, no matter your opinion of the current situation.

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Although this type of power generation beamed down to Earth could have the advantage of a constant supply of sunlight, could cloudy days interfere with the receiving station located on the planet?

@k.sullivan6303

14 күн бұрын

Of coarse my comments are about all things "Shagwell".... Ahhh Haaa!

Another Boondoggle!

This can't be new ::: wasn't something like this discovered before by nasa ...

@alphatech4966

15 күн бұрын

But they can't do it without Starship

Yeah, l don't think it will work. All of that extra solar light being beamed through the atmosphere wil heat the air up. Likewise with microwaves.

Sounds way over complicated... The Nerds are at it again... Would be much more practical to just use multiple smaller reflectors, and focus sunlight where desired. For example, a city like New york could have its own reflectors that turned night into day and winter into summer. No need for lighting and heating, just design architectually to use from the sky. No snow plows, no winters without growing seasons, no droughts because you could heat up ocean surface temps a few degrees where rain was desired down wind on land. Causing increased evaporation, and following condensation, perhaps via orbital shade cloth satelites. Enough with the over complicated technocrap, think simple and pleasant, without wires, transformers, and meters everywhere. Just fix the problems, dont create a gazillion new ones. Cities already look and act like Mordor, Complete with the Eye of Sauron, spying on everybody because the incompetant rulers are illegitiment and insecure. Lets build a Shire instead of greed based Schittholes. Can still be paid for without having wires and bureaucracies.... The government of hell is a bureaucracy, I'm sure of it.

@alphatech4966

15 күн бұрын

Your opinion is creative! But I think it's not easy to do so.

@garylester3976

15 күн бұрын

@@alphatech4966 Oh? Complicated is worse than simple? we need a gazillion miles of wire to warm and light structures ? instead of simple reflectors.... Its more passive versus more krapp. and for the yammer heads, the shading idea to cool things if the north sky effect and atmospheric convection cells isnt enough. Basically we can add and subtract light and heat where ever we wish, whenever we wish. Why have cold of night and heat of day when we can moderate everything? This is Edison versus Tesla again, a meter on it versus power anywhere. Panels on Earth will function fine off reflected sunlight... if you use microwaves some Maniac will make a weapon out of it. I only want light and warmth and enlightenment. Not fees and bureaucracy and Slaves. those reflectors could be anywhere, closer to the sun. ditto with shading devices. Global warming and nuclear winter could be meaningless. and an end to famine with four crops a year in north latitudes etc. We could have the birth rate to expand into space. And the only thing stopping us would be bureaucrats wanting individual meters on it? Just the collective benefit and increased production would pay for it without a frickin' bill to every house. Photo period would be the agricultural limit. Factories with panels or reflector generation. Man has always been about controlling nature. Not about huddling in fear in caves. The Greed heads better hope Elon doesnt realize this potential. He at least is more altruistic. Let the sun shine in. We can subtract enough in the places we dont need it. Planetary weather modification, and energy management is gonna be a thing. and in the process eliminate much in the way of infrastructure to do the same jobs by indirect means. Ditto for Mars: needs warmed up. ditto for Venus, needs a shade. Same for the moons of the gas giants.. just add heat. and could be combined with Space Elevator like tech. Our only limits are our imagination and our ethics. We have a solar system in need of modification... We are on the cusp of the tech. Let us not be Ludite nor bureaucratic. Life could be alot better than it is, and in alot more places.

If we could harness all that kinetic energy every time a Starship crashes or the explosive energy every time it just blows up, we could help supply the grid.

Shagwell will finally be able to save money on batteries especially during the night at bedtime when she uses them the most! With the solar power beamed down from space even at night, she can thoroughly enjoy herself without having to worry about the high cost of disposable batteries. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

It can't land, it can't keep a stable flight, it can't open and close the Pez-door, it can't reach orbital velocity, it can't carry any payload so far. That rocket will go nowhere. 15+ launches to refuel one ship...are you kidding??????

@Oss-6342

15 күн бұрын

I expect this comment will date quite quickly. Will be interesting to revisit it in a couple of years.

@ludwigvanzappa9548

15 күн бұрын

@@Oss-6342We will see that soon enough. I don't see them nailing those landings anytime soon. Lots of BOOMS in perspective.

@cardcasacardona8050

15 күн бұрын

De momento muchas expectativas pero nada de nada...lo conseguirán? Veremos... De momento Hollywood NASA.