It's the End of the World: Climate Collapse

[The Anti-Targ]

Heard a radio interview a few days back with a guy who has dedicated many years of research into a synthetic leaf. Basically a synthetic leaf skeleton with millions of microbes seeded onto it for harnessing the power of photosynthesis to make biofuels. Which apparently is many many times more efficient than regular plant leaves. I think biofuel production using waste material in big vats to produce methane, and these synthetic leaves probably producing oils of some kind for making into diesel may provide a substantial amount of energy.

[Kalbear]

22 hours ago, GAROVORKIN said:

It would cost billions .

And what, pray tell, do you think we're spending on energy now?

[GAROVORKIN]

5 minutes ago, Kalbear said:

And what, pray tell, do you think we're spending on energy now?

Billions and more billions  

[Week]

3 hours ago, GAROVORKIN said:

Billions and more billions  

Aka trillions

[GAROVORKIN]

On 3/2/2018 at 8:41 PM, Week said:

Aka trillions

Hugely expensive.

[Spring Bass]

It'd be vastly more expensive in the short run than putting up a bunch of solar panels on Earth. Doing space solar on a large scale requires either in-space manufacturing of the panels, or a massive reduction in the mass and weight of them (plus some way to unfold them like a solar sail). 

If we can do that, though, then it would be a huge boon. Setting up a downlink microwave receiver in some isolated area would be relatively easy.