I SO called it!
This is easily the most intellectually gratifying day of my entire life. So today I'm on the blog that Radiohead keeps and I notice on the archive list something that seemed very, very familiar: solar power stations on the moon. My friends have heard me talk about these "solar farms on the moon," as I called them, so don't pretend I didn't
http://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-8/iss-2/p12.pdf
I have, for a few years, believed that it may be beneficial if we could somehow generate power on the moon and somehow redirect it across the void of space to the Earth, it would greatly reduce the danger and environmental risks involved with producing energy on the earth. I thought it was an interesting bit of idea, but nothing more than science-fiction. My original idea involved transferring the energy from the moon to the Earth via a laser of concentrated energy. I realized the flaw of that idea (a super powered laser on the moon would have to be really, really accurate or, you know, it would burn a hole through the earth) but it was something that I still liked to think about in my journalism class. They overcame the problem of a singular defined death beam from the heavens with microwave radiation generators. I don't pretend to understand how microwave radiation on that scale would effect the Earth, the environment, or any beings, sentient or not, therein.
I don't know, I just feel really proud having learned that legitimate scientists had the same idea that I did. The icing on the cake? I found out about it on from one of Thom Yorke's posts on Radiohead's blog. I feel so giddy right now.
http://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-8/iss-2/p12.pdf
I have, for a few years, believed that it may be beneficial if we could somehow generate power on the moon and somehow redirect it across the void of space to the Earth, it would greatly reduce the danger and environmental risks involved with producing energy on the earth. I thought it was an interesting bit of idea, but nothing more than science-fiction. My original idea involved transferring the energy from the moon to the Earth via a laser of concentrated energy. I realized the flaw of that idea (a super powered laser on the moon would have to be really, really accurate or, you know, it would burn a hole through the earth) but it was something that I still liked to think about in my journalism class. They overcame the problem of a singular defined death beam from the heavens with microwave radiation generators. I don't pretend to understand how microwave radiation on that scale would effect the Earth, the environment, or any beings, sentient or not, therein.
I don't know, I just feel really proud having learned that legitimate scientists had the same idea that I did. The icing on the cake? I found out about it on from one of Thom Yorke's posts on Radiohead's blog. I feel so giddy right now.