http://www.impactlab.com/2007/12/24/space-based-solar-power-beaming-energy-to-earth/ A laboratory of the future human experience Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:47:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.impactlab.com/2007/12/24/space-based-solar-power-beaming-energy-to-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-10726 Solar Power For Homes Blog Postings | Go Solar Power For Homes Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:33:34 +0000 http://www.impactlab.com/?p=14083#comment-10726 [...] Space-Based Solar Power - Beaming Energy to Earth - While great nations fretted over coal, oil and global warming, one of the smallest at the UN climate conference, Palau, 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. Unlike other ideas, however, one this year had an influential backer, the Pentagon, which is investigating whether space-based solar power - beaming energy down from satellites - will provide “affordable, clean, safe, reliable, sustainable and expandable energy for mankind. [...] [...] Space-Based Solar Power – Beaming Energy to Earth – While great nations fretted over coal, oil and global warming, one of the smallest at the UN climate conference, Palau, 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. Unlike other ideas, however, one this year had an influential backer, the Pentagon, which is investigating whether space-based solar power – beaming energy down from satellites – will provide “affordable, clean, safe, reliable, sustainable and expandable energy for mankind. [...]

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