Frederick Bott
2 min readFeb 9, 2022

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Great idea to attract investment maybe, but as a Systems Engineer myself, I see some major flaws in your plan, besides a fundamental misunderstanding of energy, and how we use it via our economy.
First, are you really seriously thinking about aiming more energy at Earth, from the sun than it already gets?
We struggle to transmit even a few kilowatts of power any distance by microwave or laser. How would we do that with gigawatts? And how much of that would be converted to heat?
The sun is the way it is, it is the only actual proven power source in our solar system, so that is the only one we have to play with.
It has created everything we know on Earth, and used effectively is more than adequate to supply all the immediate needs of humanity.
Using it effectively means financially acknowledging its beneficial Joules added to Earth and put to use financially by humanity.
Those Joules are valuable donated product which convert directly to green hydrogen fuel which functionally replaces fossil fuels with none of the pollution either in its creation or consumption.
So we should be issuing money per the ideals of Austrian Economics to all people for free, in response to our receipt of that freely donated physical product from the sun.
That is how trees grow, maintain, and replicate themselves, all on the energy of the sun, whilst feeding all life on Earth, by supplying nutrients which transport the energy needed by all of life.
Create infrastructure which does the same, where our nutrients are money, and hydrogen fuel, and everyone has unconditional wealth, therefore no longer any need to do bullshit jobs, so all of those disappear also, saving much of the power we currently throw away using fossil fuels, driven by the old money-as-debt, zero-sum economy.
Sounds pretty radical, but this is the real only way out, and it is happening, driven by nature.
We can work with it and do well, or continue trying to work against it, and doing not so well, it seems to me... our choice.
Where I can see your idea might have legs in the future, maybe after we’ve conquered the immediate practical problem on Earth, is in the generation of hydrogen from solar in space.
Maybe that could then be dropped to Earth from space without upsetting the temperature balance on Earth too much.
Thanks for making me think about it.

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Frederick Bott
Frederick Bott

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