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In the i,Robot book -by Issac Asimov- one of the stories mention some sort of satellite for gathering solar energy.
Basically this satellite will be stationary outside of our orbit, and it will gather solar energy and intensify it into a beam that is transmitted into a base on earth.
I think it's a brilliant idea/fictional idea, we could amount for Earth's rotation by putting some sort of "repeater satellites", you know like the routers, the main harvester sends the beam to the repeater most suitable to hit the base.
This will provide a 24/7 solar energy source, with much higher potential output -well, if we excluded the losses- than anything we can do to gather solar energy on earth.
Any problems with this model, other than the chance for things to go slightly off and incinerate Earth by mistake =p...
Basically this satellite will be stationary outside of our orbit, and it will gather solar energy and intensify it into a beam that is transmitted into a base on earth.
I think it's a brilliant idea/fictional idea, we could amount for Earth's rotation by putting some sort of "repeater satellites", you know like the routers, the main harvester sends the beam to the repeater most suitable to hit the base.
This will provide a 24/7 solar energy source, with much higher potential output -well, if we excluded the losses- than anything we can do to gather solar energy on earth.
Any problems with this model, other than the chance for things to go slightly off and incinerate Earth by mistake =p...