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.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 19 2019, @03:35PM (1 child)
Who are these three people named George?
Why is the project 'damned' instead of 'cursed' ?
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday February 19 2019, @04:08PM
You're British, right? Surprised you don't know that one. Britain did Tea Act. Which China loved because the Tea came from China. But, Americans didn't want it (expensive & bad quality). George 3 said, drink up or else. We did the "or else." Known as, revolution!!