Cool Solution To Energy Needs

While great nations fretted over coal, oil and global warming, one of the smallest at the U.N. climate conference was looking toward the heavens for its energy.


The annual meeting's corridors can be a sounding board for unlikely "solutions" to climate change, from filling the skies with soot to block the sun, to cultivating oceans of seaweed to absorb the atmosphere's heat-trapping carbon dioxide. There was talk of another way, that truly does not get paid hardly any attention. So please read about the idea, follow the links to stories that will give you much more information about this unique "alternative".

There is a way to use the clean solar energy that now streams by the Earth to lose itself in the depths of space. It does not require new science, nor high temperatures, nor high energy density. It is simply to locate, in high orbit, large arrays of solar panels. Those panels convert solar energy to electricity, and then to low-density radio waves. The waves are sent to fenced-off areas on Earth where they are converted back to electricity at an efficiency rate of more than 90 percent.

If we truly believe that energy is a "necessity", which it is, then we need to treat it that way, and do whatever we can to procure it, no matter the short term cost, because the long term benefit would be "priceless". We need to treat it as a National defense issue, and give it the priority of a War, a War for Energy!


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