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I Will Use the Space Solar Farm to Rule the Earth
It does not matter to me that the Solaren Corp denies that their space-based solar farm, designed to take advantage of sunlight unfiltered by our dingy atmosphere, could be used to blow up buildings like in Independence Day, even if they try and make it explicitly clear:
[Solaren’s director of energy services Cal Boerman] also dismissed fears, raised in the past, that the transmission beam could hurt birds or airline passengers who stray into its path. The beam would be too diffuse for that. "This isn't a laser death ray," Boerman said. "With an airplane flying at altitude, the sun is putting about four or five times more energy on the airplane than we would be."
Sure it isn't a laser death ray... until I focus its stellar energy beam using the lenses secretly hidden in my fashionable spectacles and aim it directly at downtown Canada! Just a note: my plans to rule your puny little planet may interrupt Pacific Gas and Electric power service, as the company has agreed to buy enough electricity from it to power 150,000 homes once the array comes online in 2016, but that just helps my evil scheme, since not only will I be able to blow up your grocery stores and cinemas with my laser death ray, but you will also be prevented from watching TV. …But wait a minute. If you can't watch my reign of blazing cosmic destruction on CNN, how will you know about my demands for all humans to relocate to the donut factories and start producing dozens more maple logs which shall then be shot in rockets to my space lair, where I'll still be manning the aforementioned laser death ray? Curses! Well, you win this time, environmentally-conscious humans and your overlords PG&E, but I'll be waiting.
"With an airplane flying at
"With an airplane flying at altitude, the sun is putting about four or five times more energy on the airplane than we would be."
Well then why can't you just use the sun's energy?!
stop asking questions
and go back to making me donuts, human!!!
Yeah!
You're bummin' out my trip, too!
Maple Logs, mmmmmm....gluuuuurgh! ( Like Homer Simpson)
I Hear and Obey, Master Party Ben; will begin to assmble porta potties and surplus tents at bakeries to house workers.
JimRinX
P.S.: After The Revolution, when we, your Great Imperial Majesticificosities Minescule Subalterns, are Lording Over the Peons slaving away in the hot Donut Factories - before going home to our Stately McMansions in our Secure Gated Communities; can we smoke lots of bowls of........?!?
All those DONUTS......!
"Well then why can't you
"Well then why can't you just use the sun's energy?!"
Because keeping a solar cell at *altitude* would require a lot of energy. Keeing it on the ground requires no energy but the atmosphere cuts back on the efficiency. Putting one in orbit requires a good amount of energy up front but then little to keep it in orbit, and the increased efficiency is substantial. The problem is getting said energy back to earth.
Holy Tesla!
So they collect solar energy in space via solar cells.
Check, proven technology, constant light source, maintenance difficult but not impossible.
Then they beam said energy back to earth in an electromagnetic beam 1/4th the strength of sunlight, which is an electro-magnetic beam?!
I'm sorry but my engineering senses are saying WTF?
How does this pass the sniff test?
Tripp
space weapons
There is a term being used by our "defense" department called "full spectrum Dominance" which means land, sea, air, and atmospheric control, or "defense" should any other country intent on blowing up the planet to "save" it prove difficult. These are space-based lasers, just because Katie Couric doesn't report on them at 6:00P.M. doesn't mean they're not real. 60 minutes profiled a new "crowd control" device that targets microvaves at targets, and these targets get out of the way as soon as they can.