China working on space-based solar panels, plans to replace ground-based solar panels

FP via msn ^ | 6/8/2022 | FP Staff

[Wonder Warthog]

"It has to be microwaves, which can be done at 90%+ efficiency. Lasers would never work, the writer’s smoking crack on that one."

MASER....predecessor of the LASER..."microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"

[Reeses]

It takes lots of energy to put a pound into orbit.

Musk could use solar energy to mine the moon for aluminum mirror material, and free up oxygen. The mirrors do not need to be rocketed close to Earth to be effective. Unfortunately, the moon is devoid of the key carbon cycle "pollutant" CO2, which all life depends on.

Use the mirrors to warm the open ocean surfaces to create more hydropower, turn the Sahara and Australia into rain forests. No matter the future energy source, some method is needed to radiate large amounts of waste heat from Earth out to space. Once we have that technology, the global warming socialist plot is kaput. Musk should tackle that first.

[DownInFlames]

Beat me to it. They will call it Icarus.

[Mogger]

If history serves, American taxpayers are footing the bill for Chinese R and D.

We American consumers already have and still are.

[Olog-hai]

Should go without saying.

[Organic Panic]

I am sure Biden will help guarantee they get the technology from an American company.