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OSP day - firing up the beam
OSP or orbital solar power was just a idea back in the 1990's, but good ideas have a way of becoming reality, especially when the need for power is constant and the fossil fuel based system you had 1) ran out and 2) basically using it would turn our cool blue planet into a hot zone.
Now, all through the oughts, people worked on getting solar power for the people, but the efficiency of photo-voltaic cells was just not making it feasible for large scale power generation. Now, solar thermal planets are great and we started in on those in mass around 2015 but the real unlimited energy is right above our atmosphere. We just had to figure out how to get it from there to us.
You see the sun bombards our planet with power. " The 120 gigawatts of solar power hitting the planet every second is more than all of human kind has used since the dawn of the industrial era. In space, you can tap into that without having to worry about losses in efficiency from the atmosphere, clouds or night. The space program seems like it could lead to a very tangible benefit, as tangible as global communications satellites and weather tracking satellites were to the previous generation. Image what living on the gulf coast would be like without our armada of weather satellites."
Well today is the day the first OSP station goes live. It is located in the center of the Mojave desert in the USA. With the advent of super conducting cables, we can now stream the power from this barren desert to the city's across the west coast. To celebrate as many of us Evokers who could made there way to the desert area, via airship, land caravan, train, you name it ... and we set up a temporary Evoke city with a ton of lights, hooked into the grid and we waited for night to fall.
now unlike a science fiction movie there was no bright light (this system is microwaves rather then lasers) but as we waited in the darkness you could feel the electricity in the air. Well the excitement of the crowd made you feel it, then all of a sudden a buzzing noise descended and the sound of huge breakers being engaged was heard, then poof, from the dark of night to a rainbow of neon and LED's all lit up at once.
what a night, what a party for us and the planet.
to learn more about OSP see this great Wikipedia article
and this cool video from powerstat
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