"china is genociding the very stars themselves!"
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China ended planet destroying fossil fuels, but at what cost?
This is the seed that blossoms into a Dyson Sphrear, isn't it?
I hope they build the first one in the shape of 
Orbiting solar power plants definitely seems like a step towards space elevators and related capabilities. They are testing some maglev space launchers too. Eventually solar array can be beaming power down to launch site to power up mag launchers. Hell yeah!
I love this artist's stuff
I hope they build the first one in the shape of
And make it visible from space.
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From what I can tell this is a proposal from a group of scientists that was expounded on in a lecture by one of the lead engineers in the Long March program, as an example of what the LM-9 will be able to do.
What about all the oil rig workers this'll leave unemployed?? There aren't enough jobs to ~~exploit~~ employ people of you get rid of an outdated energy source!!
If movie mindset taught me anything it’s that it’s easier to teach hard working blue collar oilmen to be astronauts than it is to teach astronauts to be blue collar folks, so they’ll be fine.
Cool idea but the US would blow it up faster than you can say "Nordstream 2."
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I wonder if it's economically viable at this point? I know that solar panels produce much more energy in space and are probably more reliable but is it going to be enough to cover the cost of maintenance? Getting stuff to space is still very expensive
I'm guessing they've done at least basic cost/benefit analysis here. :)
sure, but what I'm asking is, is it an actual power plant or a research project?
So far it just looks like a proposal, but a lot of prior research has been done on the subject already. NASA has a number of studies discussing efficiency, costs, etc. I imagine they'll do a trial experiment first, and then depending on how that goes they'll decide whether to scale it up or not.
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Having a power plant that literally solves the energy problem is worth pretty much anything. Especially for a country like China, which has to import huge amounts of oil through geopolitically risky routes.
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AKSHUALLY the soviets wanted to do this since the 80s.
But at what cost??
But at what cost?
I am going to ignore conflation of "scientists say" with "government will" and instead ask how they got that number when the array is quite modest in size.
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Excuse me but the ENTIRE SUPPLY OF OIL ? Like... All of it? All unextracted oil that currently exists? Per year?
That is an absolutely fucking bonkers amount of energy.
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