In Space
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China has already started to build an early experimental space power plant in the city of Chongqing,
The space solar station, planned to orbit the Earth at 36,000 kilometers (22,370 miles) could provide “an inexhaustible source of clean energy for humans,” according to Pang Zhihao, a researcher at the China Academy of Space Technology Corporation.
Such solar power technology could supply reliable energy 99 percent of the time and have six times the intensity of the solar farms that work on the earth, the scientist says.
China will start by launching small solar stations between 2021 and 2025, while a possible next step would be a Megawatt-level station planned to be built in 2030.
This is NOT a new idea. In the mid seventies , while teaching physics at Princeton, Professor Gerald K. O'Neill researched and invented much of the needed infrastructure needed to gather material from asteroids or, in particular, the moon, and build a 'construction shack' at L5.
it's bigger than the International Space Station....a bit.....314 square miles.
That's just the construction shack. From there parts for a solar power satellite are built and transported to geo-synch earth orbit.
The solar cells would power transmitters which would beam micro waves down to a rectena on earth.
China has everything it needs to do this.
Beautiful for mankind
Would also make quite a powerful weapon. Killing humans like ants with a magnifying glass
Hahaha funny but true
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Not really...anything metal, even a wire screen, would stop the microwaves.
exhibit A...the door of a microwave oven.
What about fires?
what about it?
Ever hear of MCI? It was one of the largest telecommunications companies before the invention of fiber optic.
Guess what MCI stands for....Microwave Corp. International.
No fires.
Depends on how you direct it I would think
the point is...China is doing it right NOW.
in a few years they'll have unlimited power...24/7...all kinds of weather.
No doubt they will get this done...I wonder how efficient they will be able to get it!