“Slash and Burn”, a popular and illegal method of deforestation used by farmers to cut out forest, burn the trees, and farm in the nutrients of the resulting ash. The problem with slash and burn is that the crops drain the soil of its nutrients within 3-4 years, and it takes nearly a century for the forest to grow back. Humans have practiced this kind of environmental burnout for most of history, and as our population grows the world only seems to get smaller. This method is practiced because it fulfills the immediate needs of the humans, but does not as stated above give long-term solutions to the issue of hunger. As technology and humanity expand and advance, we are using Earth's resources faster and faster. Although, this technology does
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Rockets are very expensive to develop and burning rocket fuel releases large amounts of toxic gases as it is burned. This a problem from the perspective of the companies trying to move into space, but according to Bryan Laubscher, a well reviewed professor from the Los Alamos National Laboratories and the founder of Odysseus space travel, the solution is painfully simple; “why use a jetpack when you can take an elevator”. The idea of a space elevator has existed since before the era of the Jetsons, and technology is finally catching up. The concept of a space elevator is fairly simple a ribbon or tether made of carbon nanotubes is suspended from a satellite that orbits with the Earth in geosynchronous orbit, then robots powered by energy beamed from earth climb into space and then slingshot off the tether out to the rest of the universe riding the gravitational pull of planets. According to Dr. Bryant it costs roughly $23,000 per kilo of cargo to get into space on an American shuttle. A space elevator promises huge reductions of this cost to the factor of 9, stating “it worked something like a railroad after the rails have been laid it becomes very cheap to move the freight”. It also completely eliminates both the space junk created by rockets and the ( insert number her ) tons of toxic waste created by the rocket fuel. Making movement of the large amounts of supplies and equipment needed to extract the resources for earth from the solar system a practical and sustainable
Rockets are very expensive to develop and burning rocket fuel releases large amounts of toxic gases as it is burned. This a problem from the perspective of the companies trying to move into space, but according to Bryan Laubscher, a well reviewed professor from the Los Alamos National Laboratories and the founder of Odysseus space travel, the solution is painfully simple; “why use a jetpack when you can take an elevator”. The idea of a space elevator has existed since before the era of the Jetsons, and technology is finally catching up. The concept of a space elevator is fairly simple a ribbon or tether made of carbon nanotubes is suspended from a satellite that orbits with the Earth in geosynchronous orbit, then robots powered by energy beamed from earth climb into space and then slingshot off the tether out to the rest of the universe riding the gravitational pull of planets. According to Dr. Bryant it costs roughly $23,000 per kilo of cargo to get into space on an American shuttle. A space elevator promises huge reductions of this cost to the factor of 9, stating “it worked something like a railroad after the rails have been laid it becomes very cheap to move the freight”. It also completely eliminates both the space junk created by rockets and the ( insert number her ) tons of toxic waste created by the rocket fuel. Making movement of the large amounts of supplies and equipment needed to extract the resources for earth from the solar system a practical and sustainable