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Environment & Energy

pbmus

(13,130 posts) Sat Dec 27, 2025, 10:30 PM 8 hrs ago

Solar Energy from space...!

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Solar Energy from space...! (Original Post) pbmus 8 hrs ago OP

This makes me wonder, what are the hazards of columns of intense microwave energy beaming from space to earth? NBachers 6 hrs ago #1

Just like the Jewish Space Lasers . . . Aussie105 6 hrs ago #2

Well, yeah, for about the last four billion years. mahatmakanejeeves 1 hr ago #3

It would be interesting if people dragging out this tiresome scheme every few years were aware of the environmental... NNadir 1 min ago #4

NBachers

(19,151 posts)

1. This makes me wonder, what are the hazards of columns of intense microwave energy beaming from space to earth?

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Sun Dec 28, 2025, 12:08 AM

6 hrs ago

Aussie105

(7,572 posts)

2. Just like the Jewish Space Lasers . . .

Reply to NBachers (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 28, 2025, 12:49 AM

6 hrs ago

Some birds will be fried and some planes downed.
The odd forest fire, possibly.

Price of progress, you know.

Already harvesting solar power, just from the surface of the Earth.
Is it progress if you want to put the solar panels out in space?

mahatmakanejeeves

(68,072 posts)

3. Well, yeah, for about the last four billion years.

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Sun Dec 28, 2025, 05:31 AM

1 hr ago

Oh, I see. Never mind.

Will these arrays be just more stuff to clutter the skues?

NNadir

(37,214 posts)

4. It would be interesting if people dragging out this tiresome scheme every few years were aware of the environmental...

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Sun Dec 28, 2025, 07:04 AM

1 min ago

...implications of launching stuff into space, as well as the consequences of cluttering space with vast amounts of materials.

It was a bad idea in the 1980's, the 1990's, the 2000's, the 2010s and remains one in the 2020s.

It's not quite as disgusting that someone has done this as Elon Musk's Starlink satellites, but close. It would be a tragic disaster on a global scale were this delusional crap to go commercial

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