Shimizu Company’s radical plans for the future

The Shimizu Corporation is a Japanese design and construction firm, and they have some pretty amazing plans–that are only plans, for obvious reasons.  Maybe the new grapheme discovery will propel these ideas forward, but the gargantuan cost of each one would seem to doom them all to failure before they even start.  But hey, I’m a pessimist.  Especially before my coffee.  Via Pink Tentacle.

Solar array on the moon. On the freakin' MOON. Energy to be transmitted back by laser and microwave. Mind=blown.