The story of Noah's Ark is a metaphor for the technologies described in Spaceship Earth for helping humanity meet the challenge of global warming. Can 11 Billion people, the expected population in 2100, avoid the catastrophic consequence of continuing to burn fossil fuels? Massive droughts and crop failures, rising sea levels, deadly heat waves, acidic death of the oceans from absorption of carbon dioxide, endless wildfires and runaway global warming from the thawing permafrost. We are headed for Earth's 6th Extinction.
For humanity to survive, we need the 3 Arks described in Spaceship Earth.
The first Ark is beamed space solar power using StarTram, which can launch payloads into orbit at 1/100th the cost of rockets. Beaming power down to Earth from Space Solar Satellites in Geosynchronous Orbit can provide enormous amounts of clean, low-cost energy, eliminating the need for fossil fuels. Beamed solar power operates 24/7, unlike solar power on Earth, which operates only when the sun shines and requires millions of square miles of solar panels.
A second Ark is using ocean thermal energy to desalinate billions of gallons of water, to supply water scarce populations and farms at very low cost.
The final Ark described is a very efficient technology to remove and bury billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, annually, to halt global warming.
This is a must read for those that want to continue civilization.
The story of Noah's Ark is a metaphor for the technologies described in Spaceship Earth for helping humanity meet the challenge of global warming. Can 11 Billion people, the expected population in 2100, avoid the catastrophic consequence of continuing to burn fossil fuels? Massive droughts and crop failures, rising sea levels, deadly heat waves, acidic death of the oceans from absorption of carbon dioxide, endless wildfires and runaway global warming from the thawing permafrost. We are headed for Earth's 6th Extinction.
For humanity to survive, we need the 3 Arks described in Spaceship Earth.
The first Ark is beamed space solar power using StarTram, which can launch payloads into orbit at 1/100th the cost of rockets. Beaming power down to Earth from Space Solar Satellites in Geosynchronous Orbit can provide enormous amounts of clean, low-cost energy, eliminating the need for fossil fuels. Beamed solar power operates 24/7, unlike solar power on Earth, which operates only when the sun shines and requires millions of square miles of solar panels.
A second Ark is using ocean thermal energy to desalinate billions of gallons of water, to supply water scarce populations and farms at very low cost.
The final Ark described is a very efficient technology to remove and bury billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, annually, to halt global warming.
This is a must read for those that want to continue civilization.