Japan has serious plans to send a solar-panel-equipped satellite into space that could wirelessly beam a gigawatt-strong stream of power down to earth and power nearly 300,000 homes.
More here.
This is the sort of stuff we need to be doing as a country. We need to embrace science and try to use it solve our problems. Fuck promoting corporate ventures, we need state sponsored initiatives to pursue aggressive solutions. We can win back our super power status this way (appealing to republicans) and we can actually help the world (liberal selling point). Mad props to the Japanese and Mitsubishi.
Maybe we could start using Nasa to solve real problems?
