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How Space-Based Solar Power Plants Could Be Built By Robots On the Moon (blastingnews.com)

Posted by timothy on from the but-yur-jahbs dept.

MarkWhittington writes: The concept of space based solar power has been around for decades. The late Gerard K. O'Neill proposed building them as a way to finance space colonies in the 1970s. Recently Popular Science reported on a modern approach to building space based solar energy stations. Instead of relying on massive, orbiting space colonies filled with construction workers to put the plants together, why not automate the entire process?

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  1. Re:capitalism filter by delt0r · · Score: 1, Informative

    Even if humans never burnt a single kg of carbon based fuels. Ocean levels would still rise. They rise for quite a while after a glaciation.

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