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Tech bros will always choose the most overcomplicated option over the simplest, most effective ones.
Why build a battery and just install some more solar panels to charge it during the day when you could have a mirror in orbit beam down a tiny fraction of the light required to generate power anywhere near regular daytime capacity, for only a small portion of the night before the satellite is out of range, in only a small area, in a manner that can only work for one single client per satellite at a time, meaning it gets less cost effective at scale?
and all of this is localized entirely within your kitchen?
May I see it?
no
name does not check out
Maybe
I don’t know.
Can you repeat the question?
Imagine lying in bed trying to sleep and suddenly it's daylight because your neighbour ordered sunlight on Uber.
Haha, perfect fit 😁
These morons are still around? Didn't we thoroughly deal with them the last time their press release made the rounds which was, what, about a year ago?
Don't get too worked up about it. What they're proposing is physically impossible for a myriad of reasons, which anybody who didn't flunk their 10th grade science class would be able to tell you. Once they run out of investors to grift we'll never hear from them again.
There's no loss here other than the waste of money, effort, and rocket fuel.
They're going to shine it on the Solar Freakin' Roadways so they can keep producing power at night.
Nah, don't get too worked out over it.
It can't be economically viable either, so as soon as that company stops gifting investors out of their money, it will just disappear and the mirror will fall back into Earth.
I am worried about them screwing it up and having the thing explode in orbit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Ideally the investors figure out what's wrong before the company starts launching mirrors into orbit
If you break a mirror satellite it’s like 10 years of bad luck for the whole planet.
7 light years of bad luck
That's 6.623 × 10^13 kilometers of bad luck!
Given the ridiculous financial gymnastics propping up the AI industry, I'm not sure that "not economically viable" is always a failure state for a business any longer.
It hasn't been since at least "too big to fail."
Which bond film was this again?
https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Icarus
Satellite to direct sunlight for agriculture
I think there was something similar in a Batman film too, the bad one with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it iirc
This is literally the opposite of one of the plans to lower global temperatures.
Well I heard that you can just order to take down a satellite, so you could do that.
Does this work as a ping?
@404mediaco@mastodon.social
i wouldn't worry about it. The whole business is built on an extremely huge miscalculation.
This is literally the plot of one of the James bond movies.