The survey data are encouraging because they indicate a way to generate electricity without causing too much environmental impact, since the sun is a great renewable energy source.
Even solar power is an old technology, the conversion into electricity is not an efficient enough to replace the common and most polluting sources. According to the study proposal, within the capacity to generate energy is much higher.
The project suggests that several satellites are fitted with huge solar panels, which in turn would be gradually sent to Earth orbit. Thus it formed a global system of power generation, able to provide electricity 24 hours a day with great efficiency.
For the plan to succeed and be sent to the energy consumption in the Earth would be passed on in the form of raiolaser or huge microwave antennas.
While structures on earth would receive the transmitted energy and make the storage and distribution. All this implies high costs, so it would take a lot of investment and government support. Until now, such assistance was not offered.
This looks like it meets the main requirement of oligarchy based reasoning... it can be metered and it will be controlled by the elite, a form of social and economic control.
ReplyDeleteThe fact is, the technology we use is not efficient at all, most energy is simply dissipated as heat as we use it, and that waste is on purpose.
If we applied efficiency to the technological design of livingry, (the technology of living), the amount of energy our civilization uses would be a tiny fraction of what it is now with the same or even more work done.
Scarcity and waste are an economic strategys for controlling people for the benefit of the elites.
R. Buckminster Fuller revealed this irresponsible technological imperative decades ago, and showed many ways to get beyond it.
The logic of money, and authoritarian control of people's lives, is not the logic of survival, and if we don't face that, we will continue to disintegrate under the stupidity of the elites.
Quite stupid. We're supposed to spend hundreds of millions sending power satellites into orbit when we can simply build Concentrating Solar farms in our deserts ?
ReplyDeleteThink a minute. Once a micrometeorite damages a solar panel in space, we can't go out and fix it !
Build Concentrating Solar here on Earth.