Crazy Ideas

[JimD]

I guess I could have put this in Policy and Solutions in one of the Geo-Engineering threads, but...most are more humorous than realistic.  I got a good laugh over this one.

It's not even geo-engineering, it's lunar-engineering.
 
Shimizu, a Japanese architectural and engineering firm, has a solution for the climate crisis: Simply build a band of solar panels 400 kilometers (249 miles) wide (pdf) running all the way around the Moon’s 11,000-kilometer (6,835 mile) equator and beam the carbon-free energy back to Earth in the form of microwaves, which are converted into electricity at ground stations.
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Simply they say...we are always making things out to be difficult when solutions are just staring us in the face.

http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2013/12/its-not-completely-crazy.html#more

[pikaia]

A 200 megawatt energy beam pointed at the Earth - what could possibly go wrong? 

I don't see what the advantage of the moon would be when we get almost as much sunlight here on Earth, and it is cheaper and easier to harness.

[Neven]

I don't see what the advantage of the moon would be when we get almost as much sunlight here on Earth, and it is cheaper and easier to harness.

No atmosphere?

[JimD]

I think they might have been reading the SF novel Ringworld by Larry Niven and were inspired.  It was a pretty cool book.