Thursday, June 30, 2011

Harvesting solar power in space, for use on Earth, comes a step closer to reality

Solar power from space

Beam it down, Scotty
Jun 23rd 2011


THE idea of collecting solar energy in space and beaming it to Earth has been around for at least 70 years. In “Reason”, a short story by Isaac Asimov that was published in 1941, a space station transmits energy collected from the sun to various planets using microwave beams.

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