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China wants to put a solar farm in space by 2025
According to China's state-backed Science and Technology Daily, Chinese scientists plan to build and launch small power stations into the stratosphere between 2021 and 2025, upgrading to a megawatt-level station in 2030 and a gigawatt-level facility high above the earth before 2050. Without atmospheric interference or night-time loss of sunlight, these space-based solar farms could provide an inexhaustible source of clean energy. The China Academy of Space Technology Corporation claims such a set-up could "reliably supply energy 99 per cent of the time, at six-times the intensity" of solar installations on earth.
China's proposal suggests converting solar energy into electricity in space, before beaming back to Earth using a microwave or laser and feeding into the grid via a ground receiving system.
Also at the Sydney Morning Herald.
See also: China Wants to Build the First Power Station in Space
(Score: 3, Funny) by corey on Tuesday February 19 2019, @06:46AM (2 children)
SimCity!
(Score: 1) by Crypthulhu on Tuesday February 19 2019, @07:28AM (1 child)
My thoughts exactly. I feel like there was a random failure % where the beam would miss and cause massive fires and destruction.
*NORK*
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 19 2019, @05:49PM
Only in the old ones, supposedly they were better by SimCity 3000. Is China waiting till then?
https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/Microwave_Power_Plant [fandom.com]