China plans for the long term.
China is planning to build the world’s first solar power station in space to provide “inexhaustible clean energy” according to a story in Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of China’s Ministry of Science and Technology.
Pang Zhihao, from the China Academy of Space Technology said that a space solar power system orbiting the Earth at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers could tap the energy of the sun’s rays without disruption from atmospheric conditions or loss of sunlight at night.
They claim to be already testing the technology and intend to build the station by 2050.
Forbes
Scott Snowden - China Plans To Build The World's First Solar Power Station In Space
And a cable down to earth.
ReplyDeleteThey would send it by microwaves. They attribute it to Peter Glaser in 1968, but don't mention that the Soviet Union had massive plans for this idea. I forget when, but maybe earlier. If we built a space elevator, a Russian idea from before the SU, then we could use a cable. Good that people are thinking big again, another sign that the long neoliberal stagnation is ending.
ReplyDeleteVideo added, but it doesn't really say much more except it mentions the microwaves
ReplyDeleteCooking will be easier.
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ReplyDeleteYo double triggers!
Those “double triggers” will be as good as those missiles the US is using in Syria.
ReplyDeleteIf the put the Space Force under Navy command, we're toast.
ReplyDeleteThe US better start import those brains that shall build the space force cause their school system can’t deliver it as it never has without importing the brains.
ReplyDeleteBut this time they might not come as they might not like the turd world infrastructure, water led pipes and so on.