life of a modern hippy

sproutrobot:

Solar power, right guys?  Who’s against it? Not us. People who like gardening tend be a fan of solar power. And yet, outer-space moon ricochet set-ups, not unlike underground garden-parks, seem a little 28 Days Later.

Can we just try out all the above-ground, earth-based ideas first, exhaust them, before getting all freaky?

yewknee:

utnereader:

Engineers at Japanese construction firm Shimizu have dreamed up a plan for harnessing solar energy from the moon. It’s a large-scaled, seemingly inconceivable plan that involves remote-controlled robots building thousands of photovoltaic panels out of moon dirt, assembling the panels into a gigantic lunar girdle belt, and laser-beaming 220 terawatts of annually collected voltage toward Earth.

You seem skeptical … Keep reading …

whaaaaaaaaa?!?

This is such bullshit. On a similar note, I read yesterday that the US wants to be at 20% solar by 2030. Excuse me?!? if everyone went out and spent a couple hundred dollars on solar panels and wind generators we could do a lot better than that in just a couple of years! Why waste government money, land, and resources on huge solar and wind farms, not to mention distrubution and the agencies that go along with it? I don’t know why we have this attitude of large scale stuff. Its like everything has to be done for us.