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Letter: The perils and promise of extreme geoengineering (2)

Published 10 April 2024

From Richard Hambly, Sydney, Australia

A space-based solar power station sounds doable with advances in rockets. As for where to put the many large rectennas required on Earth to collect the energy beamed down, Australia has a lot of land and not all of it is remote from coastal populations. We aren’t short of ideas and technology is galloping along at a rate that may save us from ourselves.

Issue no. 3486 published 13 April 2024

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