Back in the heydays of the 1970s, ideas were floating freely of giant solar power satellites in geosynchronous orbit, such as the one depicted here (click on the thumbnail), soaking in all that power from the Sun and beaming it down to Earth for our consumption. Just think...for all intents and purposes, an inexhaustible supply!
Now that the Pentagon, by way of a chartered report, is seriously contemplating the idea, watch and see how the el cubos will go apes**t and condemn it simply because the EEEEVIL Military-Industrial Complex advocates it. The leftists want us (and by that, I mean the Western world) to remain dependent on oil from the Middle East, and the Islamofascists who control it.