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Solar Energy in Space is not Necessarily Easy to Harvest (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the get-a-free-Tesla-X-with-every-50-gigawatt-power-satellite! dept.

The ARTEMIS Innovation web site says, "John C. Mankins, President of Artemis Innovation Management Solutions LLC, is an internationally recognized leader in space systems and technology innovation...." And one of John's biggest recent projects is coming up with a practical way to collect solar energy beyond our atmosphere and use it not only in space, but how to beam it down to the Earth's surface where we can use it to power our plug-in cars, household appliances, and other electrical devices.

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  1. Re:Adding energy to Earth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I ran some quick numbers. It turns out that as long as we use the extra energy only to run refrigerators and air conditioning units, we'll be OK. If we use it to operate things like electric ovens or lights, it would speed up the time to Waterworld Earth by anywhere from 20-50 years.