Re: What would you do to save the environment?

Matthias Warkus wrote:

Establish lunar mining and manufacturing, lunar mass drivers, habs & fuel depots at the earth-moon Lagrange points as well as low earth orbit. Then build solar power satellites in geosynchronous orbit. This could lead to virtually unlimited energy without dumping CO2 and other green house gases into the atmosphere.


Is there definite proof that beaming that much power through the atmosphere wouldn't heat it up?

By a little BOTE calculation, I think you could increase human consumption by at least an order of magnitude and still be within the normal *daily* variation of how much energy reaches the Earth's surface VS is reflected to space. We really don't use much energy at all compared to what the Earth takes in.

So, proof, no, but good reason to believe, yes.

Perhaps the more physics-savvy here will be able to give a better answer.




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