Next-Gen Solar Energy: Tapping Into the Sun’s Full Power | FD Engineering

[@Grammostola]

How old is this? A lot of the companies/projects presented here are already dead and buried....

[@tomparatube6506]

34:34 Per Wiki, Cerro Dominador of Chile, inaugurated on June 8, 2021, is running fine.

[@Kiyoone]

at least 10 years

[@diggraph]

Made in 2021 apparently

[@processinsider68]

agree

[@mbusbridge1]

I'm seconds in, the thumbnail caught me up. I remember being amazed as a child almost 4 decades ago the USA had a big solar boiler like the one shown here. I saw pictures of that site taken more recently, it was a scrapyard. Not even buried, just broken and abandoned. Hopefully that's been cleaned up by now. Point being, it didn't catch then for some reason. Question. What would happen to a bird if it flew into a field of focused sunlight?? If what I imagine happens, probably why they build them in deserts.

[@SultanAlwadey]

I thank the owner of this channel for the useful information. I wish you success and success

[@chrism.1131]

If we can beam power down from space, why not use the same technology to beam power around on the surface of the planet?

[@absaly]

any project linked to space/satellites is a money scam & fraud

[@ChasingDifferentAdventures]

Hello from Los Angeles California. I lived all my life in Los Angeles California, and in the 1980's the Smog was so thick it filtered the Sun. The smog blocked the Sun so much the winter's in Los Angeles California was so cold between 36° to 55° Fahrenheit nights dropping to 33° Fahrenheit I couldn't see mountain ranges from where I live 4.5 miles away. Unless it was windy and smog cleared. Now the air is so clear you can see cracks and riges, on the rock walls. It uses to rain 🌧 none stop for 7 months, and the summers never exceeded 90° Fahrenheit. Due to Sun being filtered from smog I also didn't need shades, for my eyes. Now 🌡 are 110° Fahrenheit for excess of 1.5 months with 5 days in the roll Temps exceeding 116° and 1 day at 120° to 126° depending on fire conditions radiating heat. Air clean enough, and it will not get any cleaner with only Electric Vehicle's (EV's) Now to the reason why Environmental green agenda causes Drought Conditions. In 2010- 2013 there were Solar Mirror s installed to project solar arrays to a Tower with mirrors projected downward to under ground reservoir water sources. To generate steam, and generate Electricity. The temperatures 🌡 causes the atmosphere to close to 5,000° and every time birds fly thru become instantly baked and fall. In the 1980's the Jetstream used travel across California in to Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and so on to Florida. Due to the Mirrors the Atmospheric High Pressure. Has pushed the Jetstream away from Southern California to North to Washington, and or Canada 🇨🇦 . This cause along with getting rid of Smog cause higher temperatures and Drought Conditions. You couldn't pay me $10,000,000 per hour to sit, promote, sell, let alone buy any Electric Vehicle's (EV's). If you look up StachD Training channel, on his video titled Lithium Largest Ex plo ding EV Recycling ♻️ Center in Missouri. There were 4 Recycling ♻️ Centers in the United States. Now there are 2 Recycling ♻️ Centers, and none are in the State of California. Due to Environmental Impact, which the video shows Fire Authorities spray granulated elements of the Lithium-Ion Batteries 🔋 Packs, into creeks, rivers, and lake anfmd underground well resources. Not even boiling helps, and fish hacmve died in those water ways. Sure clean the Air while you Pollute the water. In April 2024 the 1st Recycling ♻️ Centers in Phoenix Arizona location burned down, and dousing water to keep cool prenting spread of fires 🔥 have caused Drought Conditions.

[@Dragon_Wise]

Out of date documentary… but great vids to fall asleep to

[@RollsFPV]

Some 40 odd years ago there was some floating pontoons off the east coast of Australia that took advantage of the temperature gradient in the ocean using it to cool a gas at room temperature to a liquid with the cool water from the bottom of the ocean and as it turns back to gas, spins a turbine generating electricity for free. I wonder what happen to them?

[@mrkeopele]

finally, maybe , the scarcity hoarding mindset can fall away and we can move forward without the violence of protecting our well being, thank you, no more colonial invasions for energy consumption

[@zcgunthihairus]

How is hoarding hurting you and what kinds of violent acts have you done to take what someone was protecting? 🤔🤣

[@williamgrimberg2510]

The solar reflecting solar array in California was shut down . Birds flying through the reflected sunlight area were getting fried and it was to expensive to operate.

[@mikep4869]

Wind turbines kill 150,000 birds per year. Birds flying into buildings take out another 500,000. House cats get 2.5 million. So far, turbines, buildings and cats remain. Besides all that, the arrays are very expensive to build/operate. Like everything else, technology will drive the cost to near zero eventually. In the end, these operate on the same principle as Liquid Floride Thorium Reactors. Just a different heat source, (nuclear vs concentrated solar).

[@ChasingDifferentAdventures]

It also caused Drought Conditions due to causing high Barometric Pressure in the Atmosphere. The Mirrors have to be removed too. The other consequences from the "Green Agenda " is the following: Hello from Los Angeles California. I lived all my life in Los Angeles California, and in the 1980's the Smog was so thick it filtered the Sun. The smog blocked the Sun so much the winter's in Los Angeles California was so cold between 36° to 55° Fahrenheit nights dropping to 33° Fahrenheit I couldn't see mountain ranges from where I live 4.5 miles away. Unless it was windy and smog cleared. Now the air is so clear you can see cracks and riges, on the rock walls. It uses to rain 🌧 none stop for 7 months, and the summers never exceeded 90° Fahrenheit. Due to Sun being filtered from smog I also didn't need shades, for my eyes. Now 🌡 are 110° Fahrenheit for excess of 1.5 months with 5 days in the roll Temps exceeding 116° and 1 day at 120° to 126° depending on fire conditions radiating heat. Air clean enough, and it will not get any cleaner with only Electric Vehicle's (EV's) Now to the reason why Environmental green agenda causes Drought Conditions. In 2010- 2013 there were Solar Mirror s installed to project solar arrays to a Tower with mirrors projected downward to under ground reservoir water sources. To generate steam, and generate Electricity. The temperatures 🌡 causes the atmosphere to close to 5,000° and every time birds fly thru become instantly baked and fall. In the 1980's the Jetstream used travel across California in to Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and so on to Florida. Due to the Mirrors the Atmospheric High Pressure. Has pushed the Jetstream away from Southern California to North to Washington, and or Canada 🇨🇦 . This cause along with getting rid of Smog cause higher temperatures and Drought Conditions. You couldn't pay me $10,000,000 per hour to sit, promote, sell, let alone buy any Electric Vehicle's (EV's). If you look up StachD Training channel, on his video titled Lithium Largest Ex plo ding EV Recycling ♻️ Center in Missouri. There were 4 Recycling ♻️ Centers in the United States. Now there are 2 Recycling ♻️ Centers, and none are in the State of California. Due to Environmental Impact, which the video shows Fire Authorities spray granulated elements of the Lithium-Ion Batteries 🔋 Packs, into creeks, rivers, and lake anfmd underground well resources. Not even boiling helps, and fish hacmve died in those water ways. Sure clean the Air while you Pollute the water. In April 2024 the 1st Recycling ♻️ Centers in Phoenix Arizona location burned down, and dousing water to keep cool prenting spread of fires 🔥 have caused Drought Conditions.

[@netook8]

the bulk of the cost of my solar setups isn't the panels, but the inverters, batteries, and charge controllers.

[@JubletsKrublets]

Very awesome video! Really cool to see mega projects already collecting data in reality.

[@alexhayden2303]

John Hanekamp, a St. Louis-based coal industry consultant, stated that, “the incremental coal production in India and China is exceeding whatever coal-fired generation capacity that was retired in the US and Europe. Whatever policymakers thought they were achieving by getting rid of coal, they’ve effectively done nothing but increase the cost of energy.” “We haven’t changed anything but make ourselves energy poorer.”

[@TheJamesRedwood]

2:36 It IS a nuclear reactor in the sky

[@markcrook3220]

Love these documentarys

[@rodm1949]

There is continually an urge to make an enormous environmental pollution of green energy’s. Instead of placing them over multiple locations obscurely.

[@williamgrimberg2510]

Just recently, a large solar farm was totally destroyed by a large hailstorm in a matter of minutes.

[@afonsomanuel1585]

What a great video.

[@PeaceChanel]

Thank you for supporting Solar Energy.. Peace.. Shalom.. Salam.. Namaste

[@skylem5373]

If every electric vehicles had a solar paneled roof it would already be a huge plus in my opinion.

[@johnrothschild-rr5kg]

They did this when Arnold Swarznegger became governor of California in 1986. Never worked then, needed fossil fuels to start it up everyday and when the mirrors/panels broke or got dusty they were never replaced or repaired and someone said "you don't think we go around cleaning them do you" "that would be a waste of manpower". lmao

[@DrRestezi]

Arnold became governor in 2003.

[@johnrothschild-rr5kg]

@@DrRestezi lol, thanks..

[@cliffmorgan31]

How about a documentary UPDATING each of these “promising technologies” of yesteryear and if successful or why they failed?

[@robertwilkinson8115]

Solar needs to step up three years!

[@denisdufresne5338]

It is crazing to think that more technologies will fix everything while there are technologies that brought us to all the environmental problems we are facing today.

[@harryb3217]

Yes. While We were focused on New Tech success, We forgot to look at end Impacts but also what We needed to Clean-up Past Tech's with Our New Found Knowledge which does of course Cause Problems.

[@carlhitchon1009]

If you would accept a loss in the world population and a huge loss of creature comforts, perhaps you don't need any new technologies. Ready to walk to the well for water and walk to the grocery store for food?

[@alexatkin]

Unfortunately, they wont. All the efforts we are putting in is merely to reduce the rate that were making global warming worse. We'd have to 100% stop using fossil fuels and then wait for the atmosphere to recover, before global warming could start to reverse. It would actually accelerate initially as particles from fossil fuel burning halves the impact of global warming.

[@patrickstarnes2355]

Chernobyl I remember had many safety features Let's pray that they can install a few more on the project 🙏

[@daxhopkins7312]

Yes, but from my understanding, safety features were actively bypassed for testing. It's not the existence of safety features that was needed, it was using them

[@BrinJay-s4v]

Chernobyl had a very good Physicist but a political officer that refused to allow discussion on the emergency close down procedure. That caused the trouble, political interference overriding pragmatism. The story is enlightening and so very sad.

[@akigreus9424]

Random thought, every time i see a solar tower powerplant using mirrors i always think, why not make the mirrors from reflective solar panels as well? Also if you use salt or sand in the tower during day and light water during night you can generate energy during most nights as well.

[@poisonduckee]

The whole point of a solar panel is to absorb light, not reflect it.

[@tomarmstrong1281]

It's encouraging to see that serious research is being done on renewable energy. What is needed is viable storage solutions.

[@GertMaree-k3j]

SA has got one of these Sun gen systems up and running in the northern cape ,Upington /Keimoes area .

[@MyrKnof]

For the lightyear: My bonnet has like 6 deep rock chips, 2 in my windscreen, and my car is barely 3 years old. Most of my km are not even highway/motorway or whatever EU equivalent is called. So how do they hold up to that abuse? I'd also call for solar panels on the side panels and doors as well now that you're at it, the price sure calls for it imo.

[@Bob_Sacamano]

Lightyear already shutdown. sad. sono sion already dead too. Only Aptera is still alive with a chance to get to production.

[@flutieflambert]

And Aptera is more efficient than its failed competitors. Its drag coefficient is 0.13, the lowest of any passenger vehicle ever made.

[@johnreeves7261]

@@flutieflambert Not quite. Check out the 1964 Panhard CD LM64 with a cd of 0.12.

[@Kiyoone]

Because it is vaporware. 0 practicality. totally useless.

[@jasonpauda4204]

​@Kiyoone no one needs a whole car to commute back n forth to work by themselves. It's plenty practical for a daily driver. It also has surprisingly large cargo space for typical shopping goods

[@VeganV5912]

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[@williamgrimberg2510]

Electric vehicles are good but to produce enough electricity for them we need to quit fulling around depending on the existing wind and solar power generation systems and get going mass factory building Thorium Molten Salt Reactors. Do the research .

[@poisonduckee]

It's not as easy as you think. That technology needs a lot of work, and even then we wouldn't be able to power the world solely on thorium.

[@maikrolf9356]

the Dutch car maker lightyear is last year already bankrupt and does not exist anymore

[@catherinepoloynis]

That's a shame. I like their focus on practical use for the consumer.

[@Kiyoone]

Oh no! Anyway...

[@fetB]

oh see, i was about to ask when do they release the product

[@poisonduckee]

They didn't go bankrupt exactly, they started back up. Just the other day they had the largest investment round at 10,000,000€

[@maikrolf9356]

@@poisonduckee yes but after that they files bankrupt again now its really finished. last September the only finished car was auctioned

[@malvinderkaur541]

Nature again gave desserts and middle east another abundant source without hindrance direct seating solar heat of melting point all they need now to do is get the best solar creators innovators and get going with their another big cache of stored energy apart from fuels

[@daylegibson4367]

Sunlight inside of earths atmosphere

[@Larrythebassman]

Oooooo yessss ✨✨💫 … we love these toys yes yes yes

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

Obviously solar energy could power cities, whole countries, when I was a teenager in the 1970's there was a solar panel store that opened in my town, it was closed one year later, the big oil companies made sure of that, they have powerful lobbyists in Washington who've been stomping solar power for decades, we could've been so far advanced with solar power, finally we're begining to develop systems to capture the sun's power

[@jamesrussell8056]

Is there a version with temperatures In degrees c?

[@LaurentiuGavrea]

very well done green energy genius level science & tech mix comprehensively covers all updates on the most critical but possibly best chances to fix Global Warming issues as the last try in fact, to really preserve our future!! 👽🤔 This doc should be one first school curriculum lesson within mandatory view and debate on while leading next generation schoolboys to a much better education focusing their future imperious skill demands to build a more reliable safety future that will forced depends on even higher energies in only sustainable way!! 🤗👍

[@rudolphriedel541]

That lightyear car looks a lot like a VW XL1 from 2011. The XL1 was a production car with a drag coefficent of 0.186.

[@Whatgirlsaretalkingabout-dy2ve]

They forgot to tell the people, that this type of system will kill hundreds if not thousands of birds. There is one similar powerplant close to Las Vegas. Smaller than this. Every time a bird flies into the area of the mirrors, they blow up. They even have a name for them, call them "Puffers".

[@kerrryschultz2904]

The glass in tall buildings kill millions of birds every year but we still build tall buildings.

[@DrRestezi]

The fossil fuel industry kills animals at a far far higher rate.

[@poisonduckee]

What about the millions and millions of birds killed every year from oil production? And the millions of animals killed by coal production? Solar effects a tiny fraction compared to fossil fuels

[@Whatgirlsaretalkingabout-dy2ve]

​@@kerrryschultz2904 You are acting like you are a fan of this method. I did not dispute any other method. I merely stated that the writer of this article showing that this is the way to go. I just added the truth to it, that there are some negative effects comes with it.

[@Whatgirlsaretalkingabout-dy2ve]

@@poisonduckee You are acting like you are a fan of this method. I did not dispute any other method. I merely stated that the writer of this article showing that this is the way to go. I just added the truth to it, that there are some negative effects comes with it.

[@ristube3319]

9:34 It sounds like it must be exhausting speaking that language all day 😳😴

[@giovannip.1433]

Roof construction should incorporate power saving or generation - either through thermal heating or electric generation - which could be stored locally or regionally. e.g. Desalination of water and that water be pumped and stored in lands lower than sea level for irrigation, drinking etc.

[@ensardafae]

Very intersesting some amazing pieces of tech in development :) Though please give measurements in metric for the population of the world that doesn't live in the US

[@keithjansen1734]

What would happen if the breaker were to sense clouds or planes? Can the system distinguish between different object in the sky? A very large portion of the earth is covered by clouds of several types and water within some of them would scatter light.

[@nashole23]

the guy at 5:25 needs to do an Arnold Schwarzenegger impression.

[@TheJamesRedwood]

The narrator is not American (even if it is AI). Why do you still call a liquid "gas"?

[@Tatilcatamaran]

Wee love new enerji❤

[@Savan_Triveda]

Thats great news.

[@arturoeugster7228]

Sure 24 hours a day if you put a solar array on the other side of the tropical latitudes but on the same location, not on this planet. If you store the energy in salt solution you still need to collect it during the day, unless you mount them at high latitudes in the sommer , still less than 12 hours ion the average.., unless you put the panels in orbit in a plane normal to the sun. meaning the ecliptic plane .With a control system to compensate for the gravity gradient torque.

[@BrinJay-s4v]

I agree its the change of state from crystals to liquid is the store miracle much as water to ice or steam, temperature remains stable as energy is poured in or extracted. A heat battery.

[@arturoeugster7228]

@@BrinJay-s4v Yes, there are : heat batteries , storing heat in bricks for later conversion to electrical energy via a steam turbine. Nicely documented by an english channel: 'Give it a thought'

[@ChinchillaBONK]

This video seems dated though

[@alexatkin]

That last project is also complete fantasy.

[@aigslmnop]

46:15 launching to gso is substantially harder than vleo a person can't look up at the invisible construct overhead and keep sight or not be vaporised if it goes stray

[@juanmontull8550]

Hi! I just wanted to say that the tower that "captures" the sun light is a Spanish Invent, it's first powerplant is called Gemasolar and it's near Sevilla, glad that this kind of energy productin is being exported through the world☺

[@denisdufresne5338]

More technologies request more natural ressources and more energy which lead to more environmental destructions.

[@bradspring8332]

Why not hold this at night only?

[@NickWindham]

Why use flat mirrors instead of parabolic dish shaped mirrors that focus the beam?

[@ypey1]

Cost efficiency

[@NickWindham]

@@ypey1 yeah, that’s what I figured. Was wondering if there was any other reason. Thank you though.

[@jsn_alva]

With a flat surface you can adjust the mirrors to reflect the sun to a point on the tower. A dish would have to point directly to the sun to concentrate the reflection to a point directly in front of it. At a certain point the dish would be not be able to point to the tower depending on the angle of the sun. Angle of adjustment(flat) vs intensity(dish). Thats why they have 10k of those mofos laid out LOL.

[@NickWindham]

@@jsn_alva good point. Once the sun is on the opposite side of the dish, it would struggle to reflect towards the tower, unlike the flat mirrors.

[@jsn_alva]

@@NickWindham 👍

[@GSSurry]

Music video with documentary?

[@BatBrakesBones]

just a farm for green hydrogen and cyberpunk clothing fabric

[@philrabe910]

8:44 CLASSIC shot of true modernity zipping past the old school...

[@Tomatriox]

Can't you just cover all roads with solar panels?Plenty of space there.

[@mrxmry3264]

solar freaking roadways? BAAAAD idea, for MULTIPLE reasons.

[@Tomatriox]

@@mrxmry3264 Not because 1 way don't work that it's not possible.

[@jsn_alva]

In california you can see some business cover their parking lots with panels 🙂

[@therasco400]

@@mrxmry3264 No, Solar Covered roadways, IE the solar panels are suspended between streetlights above the vehicles.

[@mrxmry3264]

@@therasco400 that makes more sense but it has issues too.

[@billynomates920]

maybe will work when oil is a bit more scarce

[@absaly]

no such thing as "fossil fuel" its all carbon-material derived via earths temp & pressure

[@larrytroy3758]

may be able to replace fossil fuel, but you will never replace petroleum completely... almost everything is made of plastics.. plastics are made from petroleum.

[@DaveBuildsThings]

Better to use for goods rather than burn it? Just a thought.

[@Kiyoone]

It is easier to literally space mine oil in Titan than achieving the so called "net zero"... and it is more practical

[@BrinJay-s4v]

@@DaveBuildsThings Initially oil was the required product now it a by product and stopping oil will stop everything

[@kevinkatzke9845]

How much heat dose this refract into the atmosphere 🤔

[@suchdevelopments]

😁Good day from Goonellabah, NSW, Australia. I am embarking on a significant six-month journey, I'll be circumnavigating Australia in two CYBERTRUCKs and a Tesla Semi, covering a substantial 22,000 kilometres. This journey is set to commence at the beginning of February 2025. Elon will help me. 🤗Ian Cleland

[@tubecycler]

Nice video but why use imperial units without at least displaying metric units on the screen? 95% of the world uses metric units…

[@its_blacknblue]

Who reads the comments while listening ?

[@gteea]

Couldn't overcome temperature variations because of cloud cover. Steam needs to be stable.

[@ChasingDifferentAdventures]

Seeds, for green pollination, and birds 🐦 insects are killed crossing these paths. Of the Mirrors Weather got modified due to high Barometric Pressure or " High Pressure " Jetstream bypass California, and goes North to Washington State, and Canada.. In the 1980's Jetstream went across California thru Arizona Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and to Florida. Now with those Mirrors go to Canada 🇨🇦, and drop to Colorado into Texas and then diverted due to Gulf of Mexico more North

[@redfern_mike]

Why give all measurements in miles/feet/inches (imperial) when every country in the video uses metric, and you're based in Germany which is metric?

[@tonymacaroni7458]

Because they cater to the important country, 🇺🇸 USA.

[@fredh3855]

Hey engineers! Has everyone’s homes been equipped with solar panels? If every house has solar panels and feed into the electrical infrastructure there is no need build anything. Until every house has solar panels on them all I can see in these projects is a waste of the limited resources by more engineers and corporations.

[@beyondfossil]

I totally agree we need more residential solar. Because producing solar locally and using it locally reduces stress on the grid. Every watt generated and used locally is a watt that doesn't stress a distant power plant to generate, also does not stress the grid to transmit that watt either. Residential and commercial rooftop solar is simply magical! No other energy source can blend so seamlessly into the urban environment like solar can. But residential solar is _not_ a prerequisite for large- utility-scale solar. In fact, residential solar should work to complement large-scale solar: (a) Large-scale solar is the most inexpensive form of energy in history right now (b) large scale solar can scaled up much faster than residential can. China right now is building the equivalent of 5 nuclear power reactors worth with large-scale solar every week! Residential solar is not growing as fast as utility grade solar and we need huge amounts of energy to displace fossil fuels wherever we can get it. Speed of deployment is critical given the immediate existential threat of global warming.

[@ernvxto]

@@beyondfossilvery well said

[@catherinepoloynis]

Yes, if it was part of the construction building codes, like earthquake retrofits, they would be everywhere. However, doesn't the production of solar panels comes with a list of environmental assaults... like lithium mining?

[@beyondfossil]

​@@catherinepoloynis Solar panels don't require lithium. Moreover, every human activity at large industrial scales, has some "assaults" on the environment. But the point is that renewable technology has less of it. More critically, renewable technology, including solar panels & batteries, can be recycled to form a "circular economy". On the contrary, fossil fuels require a 24x7x365 ongoing expense of investments, subsidies, and human labor to explore, drill refine and distribute petroleum. That already incurs major environment degradation and energy expenditure all before a single drop of fuel is burnt. Then, when burnt, we get 20-lbs of CO2 per gallon of diesel and a lot of toxic emissions: CO, NOx, SOx, benzene, PM2.5, a host of volatile hydrocarbons all blown right into our faces in the cities where we live, work, and play. The fossil fuel economy is an unsustainable one-way linear economy from deep in the ground to polluting of the atmosphere. The biggest thing electrification and renewables bring to the table is a "circular economy" where recycling is pivotal.

[@catherinepoloynis]

@@beyondfossil Solar panels require lithium batteries to store the energy collected by them, or they are kind of useless, aren't they?

[@gsestream]

pretty cool, but does not capture the heat energy

[@geoms6263]

Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital Holdings has launched a pilot project to recycle heat generated from Bitcoin mining to warm a community in Finland. The 2MW data center, energized at the end of May, is located in the Satakunta region, home to 11,000 residents.

[@beyondfossil]

Yep, photovoltaics is just one branch of the whole solar tech tree. There are rooftop solar water heaters that save tremendous amounts of joules of energy since it takes a lot of energy to heat water (4184 Joules per kg water per degree Celsius). Then there's large scale Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) that uses a large array of mirrors to super heat a tower where sodium is melted into a liquid to store power for a steam turbine. CSP can operate into the evening with the stored daytime heat.

[@jamespkinsella5018]

Why wer the five trucks not affordable Chinise vechicals?

[@npc6352]

Looks like tower of Sauron

[@ociniago2257]

How about the sustainability in the afterlife of each panel? That's millions of panels discarded after 15 years. That's how many tons of plastic waste then?

[@poisonduckee]

Each panel will produce 100x the energy of burning a fuel. So even if we couldn't recycle solar panels(which we do) they are still massively more efficient than fossil fuel burning when it comes to pollution

[@jigold22571]

Why not do something which is not obscene and irrelevant to Our current state of affairs like a solar skin to retrofit monstrosities that we build..Definitely the Earth has enough tunnels that we could drive to the moon..

[@andx79]

No way we should put lazers in space.

[@pm9601]

Can't tell if that is Lex Luther or a survivor from Prometheus.

[@tlatoanimachi]

Trillions of dollars when all you have to use is water.

[@victor-manuelibanez9993]

Won't 1000s of beams of ultra high energy act as heaters, warm up the atmosphere layers, astrosphere etc?

[@BrinJay-s4v]

Probably not. At 38K ft it's a steady - 38-40C Beams are radiative and without a reactive frequency no heat is transferred to the molecule. Think of how a micro wave cooker works stirring molecules up to cause heat. This is also why net zero is nonsense CO2 never caused any problem in the first place.

[@victor-manuelibanez9993]

​@@BrinJay-s4vThank you

[@Md.RobinMahmudRiyad]

thought it a solar project of china , since they have something similar like this in gobi desert since 2012 ,

[@t5782-j4o]

51 minutes long?

[@muhammadghazi4644]

Wate of resources

[@bobdole24]

Yeah... Lets put even more microplastics and toxic runoff into our water ways by putting floating solar panel on the water...

[@chrisw1462]

Solar energy from space... WHY are you even including this? 300 meters is a helluva lot shorter than 550,000 meters, the shortest practical orbit (which wouldn't work for solar power). A 2000 watt laser, after conversion losses, _might_ end up with enough power for a single hair dryer! Scaling that up to something that can survive in space is difficult. And who wants an aimable megawatt laser in space? Militaries. Just don't do it.

[@ypey1]

So much money waisted by good intentions😢

[@beginnereasy]

Wated boils at 212 c and a magnifying glass does 1440 c

[@ChinchillaBONK]

What are you talking about? Water boils at 100°C.

[@Kiyoone]

@@ChinchillaBONK he must be American. Still REFUSES metric.

[@BrinJay-s4v]

All depends on the emitting surface., The Sun and you can burn, no amount of lens can produce this from photons from the moon. Or a block of ice. There is energy in ice but its expensive to extract.

[@albertorozco5981]

Old news 😒

[@chrism.1131]

If we can beam power down from space, why not use the same technology to beam power around on the surface of the planet? Why the need for powerlines?

[@alexatkin]

Because the whole idea is fantasy. There would be far too many losses from the atmosphere, you'd get a useless fraction of the energy. If the atmosphere didn't block it, you would actually be causing more global warming by beaming more heat to the earth than we currently get. At that point, you might as well burn fossil fuels. The safety mechanism is laughable, how on earth can the satellite see something has moved into the beam, and quick enough to not cook it instantly? Its not so much someone entering the destination zone on the earth, its making sure the satellite is accurately aiming at the point on earth its supposed to and not drifting off and setting things on fire. If the satellite were to stay in the right orbit to get 24/7 energy from the sun, the location it can beam to on the earth would be constantly changing. As while the satellite is no longer subject to day/night cycles, the position of the earth relative to the satellite is. So you'd need many satellites to bounce that energy around, like we do for radio transmissions, with losses at each satellite. So again, you'd end up with no useful power at the end. Even if none of the above was an issue, it would never be economically viable as building and launching satellites is insanely expensive. Those are just the reasons off the top of my head.

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