Space Based Solar Panels could allow the US to be increasingly energy independent. The basic technology is available, it is not however commercially viable. Evidently it’s another “infrastructure” investment that’s wasn’t in the “stimulus” package.
And I’m glad.
It’s not something that needs to be controlled for political gain. But the political implications are dramatic.
The company that comes up with the ability to do this profitably will be able to take a free commodity – sunshine – and theoretically produce extremely cheap and profitable electricity without the risk seen in nuclear energy.
Perhaps we could defund much of “petrodollars” that support terrorism today.
Perhaps we could finally hear the end of the cacophony from the so-called “environmentalists” whose solution to everything is to deprive us political freedom in the name of their ill conceived programs for saving the planet.
Imagine how freed up petroleum reserves would potentially spur the development of the Third World economy and do more through free enterprise than sending money gratuitously down government sponsored rat holes in the name of “international development” that usually just seems to prop up dictators.
And in an economy about to seemingly tank, perhaps this is the kind of low cost energy that would start a new economic rebirth in North America?
In the meantime, you’ll just have to Live Off The Grid.
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