Shocking! Battery Tech From MIT (an awesome presentation)

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9. Back in the early 1970s, that's about 40 years ago

I remember listening to a presentation on Pacifica radio by two top engineers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech regarding a way to have continuous sources of power on Earth, night or day, from the sun. They said it would be feasible to put gigantic solar collectors in outer space and beam the energy back to Earth as microwave beams and to do it in a way that wouldn't fry an airplane that happened to fly into the path of the beam. Of course it would require a serious funding commitment to a space program, an area in which we seem to have lost our way.