MISC. Items

You’ll recall a few months ago I blogged about a Japanese architectural firm that had put forward a study of turning the entire Moon into a gigantic solar energy power plant. The proposal called for ringing the entire equator of the Moon with panels, collecting enormous amounts of energy, which would be beamed back to the Earth in the forms of microwaves, converted to electricity, and voila, Japan’s energy problems would be solved. Except, there was a hitch. In my book Cover Wars and Breakaway Civilizations, I outlined a 1960s US Air Force study to orbit satellites which would do the same thing. The trouble was the collecting antennae on the Earth would exist in dead zones created by the microwaves. Japan’s plan, in other words, was to make the Moon a kind of “Death Star”, and no sooner had the Japanese firm put forward its proposal than the Chinese, realizing what was up, put forward their own version, and even made reference to he fabled “Death Star” of the Star Wars movies. The Chinese, in other words, weren’t buying the idea that this was solely for “peaceful production of energy,” for one and the same technology could easily be weaponized.