When I first saw an article about this on CNN (website), I couldn’t help but think it was something from a book I’d read long ago by Gerard K. O’Neil. It was called ‘The High Frontier’ and outlined the hows and especially the whys of doing things in space to benefit those still located on the surface of the Earth.

It seems the concept was not from that book, but from an article I’d read in Scientific American many years ago.

American scientist Peter Glaser introduced the idea of space solar power in 1968.

The concept is simple, the execution is the sticking point. It will cost enormous amounts of money.

Well, welcome to the 21st century. The amount of money needed to do this in the ’70s is trivial today, when a president can throw away that much money on a war of his choosing.