Breakfast Bonus: Buying sunlight

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What would you do if you could buy extra sunlight hours? That may be a reality sooner than you might expect - so today we discuss what we would do if we could buy more sunlight throughout the year

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason sam By.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thanks for listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today, we're
asking the question, would you love to make summer a
little bit longer because now you can pay for the privilege?

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yeah, that's it. Well, sunlight is the new oil, that's
what we're saying, and we need to harness it. Imagine
if you could turn on sunlight with a switch. And
I'm not talking about a light, I'm talking actual sunlight.
So this is a real startup that is it's a
happening thing. It's called Solar Systems and they are sending
up next year mirrors into space so they can reflect

(00:34):
sunlight back to the Earth. And they've even got an
app where you can purchase and buy sunlight.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Wow, wouldn't that be great in the middle of July
when you're just feeling a bit down and you just
need that sunlight to give you or we pick me
up and you can't afford to go to Fiji or
whole way.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
You've got solar power and it's been raining in horrible
and miserable for two weeks. You're like, oh no, hold
on solar panels on our roof. Pay for that.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
It wouldn't stop the rain though, would it. No? Because
I was just thinking, what if you had event and
you had it on a specific day and you really needed.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
You want to find wedding day, but you couldn't, then.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
You just have a really sunny rain show.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, you'd have a sunny rain show. You could cast
the lights. Well maybe not under the clouds, maybe just
once again it's through the clouds, so the clouds is
still a problem. You're working on that.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
But what about if you were like making a movie
and you want a beautiful, like sunny rain shower. You
know the rain's coming there day, let's get some sunlight
as well.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
A good idea.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
The problem is, right, even if, for instance, street if
you're lying at home, you're like, oh, I wouldn't mind
working on the tan a little bit in the middle
of winter, a little sunshine, even in the middle.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Of night, go out there when the rains on it's raining.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
And the problem is you might have made the purchase
to purchase the sunlight, right, and I don't know what
the cost is. I can't imagine it's cheap to operate.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Thinking it's in the hundreds of thousands.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Well, I mean The original reason for doing this is
to send it to solar farms because at the moment,
solar farms only work, you know, eight to ten hours
opinion on the daylight at the place per per day.
So what they're doing is go, well, no, now we
can cast sun onto those mirrors, those so those solar
panels twenty four seven days a week. So you want
a whole lot more energy.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
There's something in it because what about growing crops and things.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I was going to say, imagine what it does for
harvest some things.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
When it's been a frost. Yeah, like we save our Great.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
There you go. There's a good reason about that.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Although and again I'm no scientists whole space technician, but
you remember that time, Tony, you hear that mirror at
your house and then the sun beamed off that and
almost boot your house down? Do you remember that?

Speaker 4 (02:27):
I remember that? But how us really started a fire
in my house smoke?

Speaker 2 (02:32):
So how dangerous of this people were literally now booming
off a mirror onto us.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
All technology is dangerous, Jason, I'm.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Just gonna embrace it.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
No, no, no, you know everything it's all about how
you use science, you know, like for example, nuclear energy,
great example you know, if it explodes, it's not great,
but it's us and can power cities across the world,
and it's the same with us. Now here's the downside
of ordering your own little soularburst from the sun, and
that when you pay for your sol or your your

(03:01):
son from the mirror, by the time the beam has
expanded and got to Earth from the orbiting satellites, it's
five kilometers wide.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
So for instance, so if you bought it, it's going
to be study at my.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
House at three a sunbathy the whole of.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Sunshine. So there is that I see right. Well again,
if you've got crops nearby, you're doing them a favor
to You're that guy. You're the community hero at that
stage you are.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
You're providing sunshine through the winter months.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
You're welcome in the middle of the night.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Thanks for listening to the Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast. Get
your day started with Coasts Feel Good Breakfast, Tony Street,
Jays Reeves and Sam Wallace.