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: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Tuesday February 19 2019, @09:47PM (1 child)
I believe this is the original source of the article.
http://www.stdaily.com/zhuanti01/tjyzsc/2019-01/25/content_748479.shtml [stdaily.com]
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday February 20 2019, @01:56AM
Well, half the population of Vancouver, BC can understand that.