Daft idea
If you collect energy from the sun in space and beam that down to the Earth, you are literally making the global warming problem worse by increasing the energy falling on the planet.
Posts by SBU
29 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Mar 2013
Look! Up in the sky! Proof of concept for satellites beaming energy to Earth!
Scientists pull hydrogen from thin air in promising clean energy move
Supreme Court urged to halt 'unconstitutional' Texas content-no-moderation law
Thursday 19th May 2022 06:15 GMT 
The first amendment also limits companies.
In the US, no company has natural rights. A company exists purely due to corporations law. Any rights a company has, exist only because corporation law provided those rights. The corporations law is subservient to the first amendment. The law cannot therefore allow a corporation to impact upon a human's first amendment right to free speech.
A company could be given free speech rights but that would only apply to speech that is inherently that of the company. It would not apply to employees or customers of that companies as their rights are inherent to the indiviual.
Pentagon opens up about its database of 400 smudges that may or may not be UFOs
Google unrolls search features to tackle misinformation
Intel to spend €17bn on chip mega-factory in Germany
8 years ago another billionaire ploughed millions into space to harvest solar power and beam it back down to Earth
Friday 6th August 2021 05:45 GMT
Daft idea
This makes the global warming problem worse not better. Your increasing the surface area of collected sunlight. Every watt beamed from space now has to return to space via atmospheric convection and radiative loss. If we are already getting too warn effectively increasing the sunlight the planet absorbs will not correct that.
President Trump turns out the lights on solar panel imports into US
Tuesday 23rd January 2018 04:36 GMT
Chinese solar companies are engaged producing polution.
Chinese solar companies are manufacturing solar cells that are of obsolete design and whose total lifecycle energy cost is about equivalent to the total lifespan energy output. The environmental damage from the manufacturing process is huge.
By ensuring these Chinese cells are not dumped in the US it become much more viable for advanced technology (such as sliver cells) to be produced in the US. The environmental cost will be reduced, the TCO of solar installations will be reduced and the more advanced cells being produced will be far more energy positive that the imported ones.
Chinese solars cells are little more than frozen coal powered electricity and are not helping the environment one iota. By adding these tariffs the net effect is an improvement to the environment. Win, win, win.
Don't bother buying computers for schools, says OECD report
Tuesday 15th September 2015 04:04 GMT 
15 year olds require more than the basics
Teaching basic literacy and numeracy, the report adds, “will do more to create equal opportunities in a digital world than solely expanding or subsidising access to high-tech devices and services.”
If your teaching basic literacy and numeracy to 15 year olds, you missed the boat.
NBN cable rules spark electricity network push-back
Cheers, Bill Gates. Who wouldn't want drinking water made from POO?
Australia's marriage equality vote should take place online
Thursday 13th August 2015 01:54 GMT 
Tell 'em they're dreaming
"What better way for the DTO to encourage people to sign up for government accounts, and introduce the look and feel it proposes for all government web sites, than with a plebiscite?"
If you are writing about MyGov accounts then nothing will help. The people behind MyGov are utter fucking morons. They can shove MyGov up their arse, rotate it clockwise until it locks and then yank it out with a bus.
Not playing that game, just not playing. Must stop writing now as every remaining word I have to say is foul and vulgar.
Playing with graphene? All the cool kids are using TIN – atom-thick sheets of stanene
Bye bye, booth babes. IT security catwalk RSA nixes sexy outfits
NO WARRANTS NEEDED for metadata access, argues Oz A-G
Tuesday 27th January 2015 01:58 GMT
Storing data on phone calls is a direct attack on democracy
In a country like Australia where a secret ballot is essential to ensuring an honest election, this is an attack on people's right to vote for whom they prefer.
Any person should be able to speak or act, for or against an incumbent executive government. By tapping my calls without warrant, by looking at who I call, where and when, even legal political activity can be curtailed and suppressed.
Should I choose to campaign (as is my protected right to free speech), I can no longer be assured that the executive government will not interfere. If I argue with Australian voters the attorney-general cannot be trusted and should be replaced, can I expect this to be ignored by those currently in power? Should I choose to argue that the security forces need to be curtailed can I expect now to appear on a watch-list that restricts my access to like mined individuals?
Those who have nothing to hide have no vote.
SBU.
Renault unveils mini-SUV equipped with a QUADCOPTER DRONE
CERN boffins fire ANTI-HYDROGEN BEAM
DOOMSDAY still just MINUTES AWAY: As it has been since 1947
Hello Warsaw: Greenland ice loss will be OK 'even under extreme scenarios'
Dark HEAVY METAL star fires up jets, vomits hot ROCK into space
WD unveils new MyBook line: External drives now bigger... and CHEAP
Green German gov battles to keep fossil powerplants running
Tuesday 20th August 2013 08:45 GMT
The answer is obvious...
Start investing in more sustainable green power.
Replace coal/gas fired power stations with HFR geothermal power stations. The construction costs are similar to coal fired power stations. The running costs are lower than any other type of power station. The footprint on the planet is smaller than any other type of power station. The emmisions are near zero. Thier operation does not create waste products. They provide baseload power 24 hours/day. As a green/renewable powersource they get priority on the grid.
Seriously, this is a solved problem, I wish people stop whining like a bitch and just get on with implementing it.
US federal judge: Yes, Bitcoin IS MONEY
Are driverless cars the death knell of the motor biz?
Thursday 11th July 2013 08:15 GMT
I love the idea and desperately want one but what about professional drivers
Truck drivers, taxi drivers, delivery van drivers, there are a huge number of people who will be put out of work by this technology. For example, a large trucking company would want to automate their trucks as soon as possible. The trucks will suffer less wear and tear, use less fuel and tyres, and be able to run 24hours a day without a break except for maintenance. Lets face it, the maintenance will becopme automated too, so goodby mechanics. This will result in a significant saving for the trucking company but what government is looking ahead and putting plans in place to find work for the displaced drivers, mechanics, etc. Do they just get chucked on the rubbish?
Star Trek: The original computer game
Friday 17th May 2013 08:51 GMT 
Back in the nineteen seventies...
The computer club at the school I went to had a Star Ttrek program running on a Wang 2200B written in BASIC running in real time. It was great. If you didn't move eventually all the klingons and Romulens would eneter your sector and attack you. Not a bad inteface for a 80 by 25 Character B/W screen. The machine had 8K of RAM and a 32K ROM based basic interpreter, twin tape drives and a card reader. Nice keyboard though, with smart function keys.
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