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Japan Eyes Solar Station In Space

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they're-gonna-need-a-gundam-to-defend-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "By 2030 [Japan] wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves. The government has just picked a group of companies and a team of researchers tasked with turning the ambitious, multi-billion-dollar dream of unlimited clean energy into reality in coming decades."

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  1. Re:Good luck with that... by Prune · · Score: 0, Troll

    Saying "We also need fewer people" shows how much value you place on human life--regardless of whether it is future human life. The only non-misanthropic attitude would be to say "We must expand into space in order to allow unrestricted growth in the number of human lives in the universe."

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    "Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."