“By precisely reflecting sunlight that is endlessly available in space to specific targets on the ground, we can create a world where sunlight powers solar farms for longer than just daytime, and in doing this, commoditize sunlight.”
The error was in: “we can”
I will learn how to make an orbital rocket just to fuck this things day up.
No, night is already too bright. You are not ruining this for me further.
Even if it were actually doable, this a dumbass idea. It doesn’t take a genius to recognize that night/darkness are necessary for life and that we already have enough environmental problems related to artificial light pollution.
yeah, shit’s fucking cooking, you know what’d be great? let’s add more heat, at night!
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I don’t even want to imagine the environmental studies and hurdles they’ll have to jump through to artificially alter an areas day/night cycle. There’s a laundry list of environmental concerns that I’m sure any homeowner or eco-activist worth their salt would jump on. Not to mention glare and impacts to air traffic, on and on.
Would make my solar panels pretty darn effective though. Would probably be great for SAD in winter too. Clever idea. Not sure I can get behind it though.
Oh Mr X guy, so you want to fly a Teslas into space? Are there environmental impacts? Oh. Yes, one more million. Okay looks like you’ve covered all the possible impacts, you have our go for launch!
you think profit obsessed c-suites give even a moments consideration about environmental concerns?
Can we just for a minute stop fucking around in space? It’s getting annoying
It’s just life giving light that we’re talking about here. 😂.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not, but it’s unfamothably stupid.
Think, for a second: we already have way too much energy in the system, with too much heat that can’t leave easily. You really want to add to that? REALLY?
Because that’s painfully fucking dumb.
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I just feel like we at least can, in theory, keep the shit we do on/to earth under control.
Space is a different world entirely and not only do we not know what effects our shitty pollution projects have out there, we don’t even really care about it as far as I can tell.
I just feel like we at least can, in theory, keep the shit we do on/to earth under control.
We aren’t even doing it NOW though… Not even close.
Space will become so littered with high speed debris that within our lifetime it will be no longer safe to launch.
Mustard actually just did a video on the first attempts of this by the Soviets/Russians.
https://nebula.tv/videos/mustard-the-man-who-built-a-spotlight-in-space/
I was actually thinking 🤔…hmm this would be the best way to tell some other civilization that we live in this planetary system…get a mirror big enough to point a beam out of its normal trajectory in some sort of non random fashion. Basically smoke signals using a mirror.
… or you know, use radio
It’s like that episode of futurama - the mirror wernstrom put in space to reflect sunlight, which gets tapped by a little space rock, and tilts into a solar powered death beam
Might be fun for novelty on a concert venue or ball game, but I can’t imagine it’d be economical for solar farms.
I watched a video yesterday about the laser range finder on a tank. The interesting thing is that at long enough ranges, the laser expands into a cone that may be bigger than the target and give inaccurate readings.
Anyway, I look forward to this totally real and feasible technology.
You just need perfectly rigid solar mirror technology that you can store in a rocket while being launched.
This will never happen
Maybe build that Stanford torus station instead? It’ll be expensive initially, but we can send some people to live there.
Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun . . .
