Ideas for future energy sources
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We should build a giant Solar panel and place it in Orbit around the planet and have it constantly follow the sun, to maintain a constant supply of energy.
This would cost Billions of dollars, but over all I think would be a very good investment. We are getting to that age in humanity where we need to start exploring the next age of energy, and I think something of this magnitude would be a good start.
Any Engineerfags here got any idea how big it would have to be, how long it would take to build, and how we could use the energy it produces, here on earth.
I'd like to talk about possibilities of asteroid mining, but since /pol/ has become a camp of uneducated redneck dwellers, I see no point of talking about this anon.
You are 3 years late, even Space Elevator is gone.
>>57302693
Better than putting them in fields, but would the microwaves be dangerous?
>>57302693
>>57305209
THIS
you'd have to have basically,"ZONES" dedicated to just that,and the people that worked there would have mad hazard pay and all that jazz
your biggest problem is our existing infrastructure too, it's pretty weak
so...even if you get a mad amount of juice
the problem is the length of the wire and how far you have to get it to hit "society"
so then to solve this lets say you make micro zones to receive the beams near population areas, i'd suggest landfill type zones that have no chemical hazards
but then you could feasible maybe pursue this with the right amount of investment
problems of comets or asteroids colliding with your "panel" although the ones that go up currently are more like a "sheet" think a thin metal blanket, but they do get thicker,all depends on the use
so it would be doable all of it,but the pricing is insane
and the dangers are crazy, i'd personally be all for it,because then you can probably piggyback better internet on this system and a few other things
the only huge problem i personally see, the implications it would have on our atmosphere and ozone our magnetic fields, what would you do if a say hurricane or earthquake or some other natural disaster falls inside of the area of the beams, and then you also have the problem of coordinating schedules of when you can power it on and cant and you can't miss windows oh god the math
>>57302693
>not just building a 500 meter space mirror to shoot a focused beam down to earth
>not having it double as an orbital superweapon
The nazis were planning this ages ago. Instead of wasting money on green energy and military bases all over the world America should just build one of those.
>>57306238
Holy fuck, those are so pretty disastrous scenarios, but very possible
Fusion energy is the most convenient and feasible energy source in the near future allowing for easy space travel and eventually more energy sources. I say this having worked in the fission field as a reactor operator
>>57306934
basically you turn the world into what command & conquer tiberium wars is
safe zones, red zones,yellow semi ok zones
>>57307420
yes,i like cold fusion myself
but still very unstable and doesn't output nearly enough to be viable just yet
we basically need to create mini suns for some wicked reactors,but we're not there just yet
>>57307420
You must be one really shit operator to not know that to date we haven't been able to produce a fusion reactor with net energy output as well as the fuel needed to run one are difficult to obtain Hydrogen isotopes.
Couple that with huge investment costs and radioactive emission you won't see a fusion reactor any time soon whatsoever.
>>57307454
You could make the receivers in the ocean, and turn off the system everytime it goes over land
>>57302693
thats actually a good idea and i used it for a sci fi book im writing
>inefficient
>dangerous
>expensive
>look at the fucking size of the collectors in that pic
"no"
