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Japan’s plan to supply all the world’s energy from a giant solar power plant on the moon
Shimizu, a Japanese architectural and engineering firm, has a solution for the climate crisis: Simply build a band of solar panels 400 kilometers (249 miles) wide (pdf) running all the way around the Moon’s 11,000-kilometer (6,835 mile) equator and beam the carbon-free energy back to Earth in the form of microwaves, which are converted into electricity at ground stations.
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Unfortunately, this seems like it will require too much forward thinking, and too much of an investment in the future for the human race to handle. It's disappointing, sometimes, to watch great ideas that would push our species forward be squandered by the ego that is the human race.
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I couldn't have said it better myself. Humans are a selfish species, if they aren't going to benefit from it in their lifetime, why work on it, why make things better for those they wont even know.