This is an old idea which time has come. Put a huge solar cell panel in space and beam down the watts for electrical power, not signals, but real power.
Japan announced a fifteen year program costing twenty one billion dollars to do it.
I see two reasons why this will work now.
Japan is free from US restrictions.
The technology is already done, mostly.
Today Tom Friedman writes in the NYT, that the time for solar energy is now. Several countries are already taking the right steps.
I hope Steve Chu, the Nobel Prize winner in charge of the US Department of Energy is paying attention. He is a smart guy, I'm sure he is.
We are in a bottleneck for humanity, we have been through others in our past, it doesn't feel like Nature is going to lick us now.
I am confident that teaching science and math properly can help a lot in these dire circumstances.
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