I'm fucking horny at this shit.
"The project would aim to establish a large collecting area receiving solar energy near constantly, without the atmosphere or seasonal changes affecting energy levels. Converted energy would be then transmitted to Earth via microwaves or lasers. The project would provide large-scale renewable energy and help tackle energy resource scarcity"
Finally some fucking good news in this hellworld.
Let's gooooo :mao-shining: :xi-shining:
It’s not a good idea, geostationary is like 40k km from earth, energy transmission is super-bad at these distances plus they would spend too much energy, it’s more efficient to plop them all over their desert region
Deserts are fragile ecosystems that you'll utterly destroy by just "plopping" large solar facilities down.
https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1403885110865272833
Obviously there's a push-and-pull here but please rethink deserts as not just empty places for humans to extract energy from.
Yeah, they have systems I’m not implying cover whole desert so it all get shaded, but space is not the answer - energy recapture would still require installations in desert.
It’s not a good idea, geostationary is like 40k km from earth, energy transmission is super-bad at these distances plus they would spend too much energy, it’s more efficient to plop them all over their desert region
They just had a lasers breakthrough actually. It changes a lot of theory on this topic and further advances are expected.
A) That’s not the same as continuous source, b) by necessity it would produce giant dot (eyeballing like 0.5 km), with obvious dodgy implications that it’s mistargeting can blind whole city
Well unironically: it would be guided by transmission channel, security/cryptography fuck ups would be like super not good, and state actors (khm) would like it to fuck up. Idk, seems more aspirational idea than a useful one
:china-stars:
(couldn't find the emote that's China with the troll face on it)
looking forward to all the chud conspiracy theories about chinese space lasers causing forest fires
Fuckin energy transmission via directed energy? That's incredible, go China
Hopefully while they're remotely calibrating the laser that's being driven directly by a solar powerplant, they can point it at the piece of shit car Elon put in orbit.
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China’s Long March rocket series
:mao-wave:
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Next time chuds tell you solar panels don't work at nighttime, tell them under Communism, they will.
So we're getting the Simcity 2000 microwave power plant for real? Nice
