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Using space-based solar power to stop climate change: thoughts? (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What's everyone's thoughts on using space-based solar power to help solve the climate crisis?

Now that we're hitting the 1.5 degree mark, I notice a lot of news articles coming out in favor of such things, but I want to know how you think of it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Space based solar power is going to be a lot more expensive than ground based solar power.

The issues that it solve are distribution and night time production. I think we can solve those with a combination of various types of renewables and storage in a much cheaper way if we really wanted to.

It's an interesting technology but it's way too expensive and it might have unknown consequences. Like the other poster said, I also don't think it's a great idea to add massive amounts of energy from space to earth. It would probably be better than fossils that we dig out of the ground and turn into energy, but it's still introduce energy and thereby heat into our atmosphere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Let's not imagine everything in waves, sometimes it could be a packet or particle

People can already get internet from space with Tesla's new starlink, we could always just have solar panels with a detachable lithium battery in the orbit of earth, then astronauts arrange to drop it back down to earth with the same technology they use for dropping drones and miners onto Mars

It's rocket science not magic lol