Japan's Solar Station to Beam Energy Down

Off Topic
1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091108/sc_afp/japanspaceenergysolartechnology

[quote]It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan’s space agency is dead serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves.

The government has just picked a group of companies and a team of researchers tasked with turning the ambitious, multi-billion-dollar dream of unlimited clean energy into reality in coming decades.

With few energy resources of its own and heavily reliant on oil imports, Japan has long been a leader in solar and other renewable energies and this year set ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets.

But Japan’s boldest plan to date is the Space Solar Power System (SSPS), in which arrays of photovoltaic dishes several square kilometres (square miles) in size would hover in geostationary orbit outside the Earth’s atmosphere.[/quote]

I wonder if they will build Gundams to defend it.

2

How can they not build Gundams?

3

If this happens I wonder if it will shut up all those climate change fags. My guess is they’ll find something else to get worked up over.

4

I wonder how much EMF that kicks out. Wouldn’t want one of those receivers in my backyard :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

5

Those crazy little fuckers. Sure know their numbers.

6

He says they have the “goal” to produce electricity at 8c KW/hr. That would be nice, maybe they figured out how to reduce launch costs to $10/lb. Perhaps if they flapped their arms hard enough they could carry a payload to orbit that cheap.

This isn’t a new idea, but the thing that always kills it is it’s just not cost effective compared to other sources of energy. When you have to pay $10,000/lb. to low-Earth-orbit, it just isn’t going to be financially viable. The key technology is a low-cost way to orbit, when you get that, it can become more do-able and lot of other Buck Rogers stuff becomes possible.

7

[quote]Bunyip wrote:
If this happens I wonder if it will shut up all those climate change fags. My guess is they’ll find something else to get worked up over.[/quote]

What do you mean by this statement? What’s wrong with “climate change fags”? Do you really believe we aren’t affecting the climate?

8

we may not be affecting it as much as some like to have s think, or maybe its more. we just have no idea. we do know that every day has a different weather pattern though

9

They have the right idea with the whole “looking to the sun for energy” thing, but i’d prefer if they focused all their efforts on this: http://www.pppl.gov/fusion_basics/pages/fusion_power_plant.html

10

[quote]WormwoodTheory wrote:
They have the right idea with the whole “looking to the sun for energy” thing, but i’d prefer if they focused all their efforts on this: http://www.pppl.gov/fusion_basics/pages/fusion_power_plant.html[/quote]

You fucking serious? Haven’t you seen spider man? It can’t work!

11

[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
WormwoodTheory wrote:
They have the right idea with the whole “looking to the sun for energy” thing, but i’d prefer if they focused all their efforts on this: http://www.pppl.gov/fusion_basics/pages/fusion_power_plant.html

You fucking serious? Haven’t you seen spider man? It can’t work![/quote]

12

[quote]asusvenus wrote:
How can they not build Gundams?[/quote]

They already did.

13

[quote]Ghost22 wrote:
asusvenus wrote:
How can they not build Gundams?

They already did.

http://ourrobotmasters.blogspot.com/2009/07/real-gundam-towers-over-japan.html[/quote]

good it can fistfight with the statue of liberty.

14

[quote]That One Guy wrote:
Bunyip wrote:
If this happens I wonder if it will shut up all those climate change fags. My guess is they’ll find something else to get worked up over.

What do you mean by this statement? What’s wrong with “climate change fags”? Do you really believe we aren’t affecting the climate?[/quote]

*ALERT CLIMATE CHANGE FAG ALERT

15

[quote]Kanada wrote:
we may not be affecting it as much as some like to have s think, or maybe its more. we just have no idea. we do know that every day has a different weather pattern though[/quote]

I don’t see how anyone can think we’re NOT affecting it, simple common sense should suffice. But maybe it’s more obvious to me because I basically took a semester about the ways we derive energy to power our society and how it affects everything.

By the way, I’m no hippie, I hate hippies, but as far as continuing mankind’s progression, the energy and water problem are things we should start solving soon.

16

[quote]That One Guy wrote:
Kanada wrote:
we may not be affecting it as much as some like to have s think, or maybe its more. we just have no idea. we do know that every day has a different weather pattern though

I don’t see how anyone can think we’re NOT affecting it, simple common sense should suffice. But maybe it’s more obvious to me because I basically took a semester about the ways we derive energy to power our society and how it affects everything.

By the way, I’m no hippie, I hate hippies, but as far as continuing mankind’s progression, the energy and water problem are things we should start solving soon.[/quote]

Stop going off-topic, this thread is about robots.

17

[quote]asusvenus wrote:
That One Guy wrote:
Kanada wrote:
we may not be affecting it as much as some like to have s think, or maybe its more. we just have no idea. we do know that every day has a different weather pattern though

I don’t see how anyone can think we’re NOT affecting it, simple common sense should suffice. But maybe it’s more obvious to me because I basically took a semester about the ways we derive energy to power our society and how it affects everything.

By the way, I’m no hippie, I hate hippies, but as far as continuing mankind’s progression, the energy and water problem are things we should start solving soon.

Stop going off-topic, this thread is about robots.
[/quote]

You’re a robot.