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What's everyone's thoughts on using space-based solar power to help solve the climate crisis?

Now that we're hitting the 1.5 degree mark, I notice a lot of news articles coming out in favor of such things, but I want to know how you think of it.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Short- and medium-term, anything that leads away from fossil fuel is a good thing. Long-term, though, it seems like taking energy that would normally have bypassed the Earth, capturing it, and then adding it into our ecosystem is probably a bad idea. I'm a total layman, here, though, mostly going off of what I've read in science fiction.

Also, yeah, the weapons potential is a problem, though I sort of feel like we've already got all the weapons we need to intentionally eliminate human life, so further refinements don't matter much. It's the accidental extermination we're worried about, and this might help with that for awhile.