those are nice solutions, but not proven.
We have many proven solutions, like solar and tidal/ocean.
In fact the best probable working solution is algae farms, which is seeing amazing headway, you should check it out!!

What about a Mac gun for that orbiting solar station? Light 'em up Cortana!!!!

It would take an algae farm the size of the state of Texas to produce enough hydrogen to supply the energy needs of the whole world. It would take about 25,000 square kilometres to be sufficient to displace gasoline use in the US

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hydrogen_production

Scientists think it is possible to have a solar power plant in space and then use microwaves to transmit the power down to earth. In fact, the Discovery and Science Channels teams up and did something with new technologies like that to "fight global warming" but it would be really tricky and really expensive not to mention the national security aspect of it would be terrible. Imagine is someone sent a missile out into space and knocked one of them out.

exactly cwbys, algae power plants are all the rage right now, you will see them become much more useful in the future.

Not to mention algae soaks up a shit load of co2

If we deflect solar energy towards the Earth (which would otherwise have missed it), aren't we going to make the planet even warmer?

 There is a project for a prototype fusion reactor planned for 2018 in Europe.....but not all of the kinks have been worked out yet and that is the whole point of this reactor.  nothing yet has been done for fusion though.

Personally, I would love to get off of the oil bandwagon so that we wouldn't have to buy from the middle east and deal with their terrorism.  I mean, we only involve ourselves w/ the middle east b/c of oil, and the arabs react to that like hornets so not buying oil will mean no more 9/11's.  Heck, I also want a cheap electric bill too :)                              

It's just microwaves, a lot like radio waves but I see your point.  Instead, compare vibrating the earth just a little bit with a coal plant belching out smoke, C02, etc which just can't be good for the environment can it?

Btw, the japanese are planning on launching a sattelite like this, or getting somebody else to launch it, mabey china or the US, but either way, the japanese look to have a really cool geeky way of getting energy in the future.  I think that it could work, I mean, the sun has to be a LOT brighter out in space where you don't have clouds or the atmosphere blocking the sun, so a lot more energy could get to the solar cells up in space.

It doesn't matter how the energy is transmitted (microwaves or otherwise). The point is that more energy is being redirected to earth, where it will be used and converted to (mostly) heat. I guess it's still much better than burning coal (as long as it guarantees this coal won't be burned anyway, which is kind of hard), but it seems worse than ground-based solar panels, whose sole effect is to send the sun's energy away to other places on earth.

It seems to me that this is akin to turning up the sun's strength, although I don't know by how much.