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Japan's space agency planning space-based solar power arrays
We've seen some pretty out there solar installations, but JAXA, the Japanese space agency, is about to get really far out with its latest project: a space-based solar array that beams power back to Earth. The agency is set to begin testing on the microwave power transmission system on February 20th, with an attempt to beam enough power over the 2.4GHz band to power a household heater at 50 meters (164 feet).
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Last edited by LMagic007; 10th-February-2008 at 03:09 PM.
A microwave beam from a satelite was one of the methods of power generation in Simcity 2000. And yes there was a disaster of the beam misfiring elsewhere taking down a few blocks of your city in a fire storm. Do you want to live under that satelite?
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"Natural climate forces can not be underestimated, but no climate model produced can show the speed of the melting in the Arctic that has occurred without adding human contributed emissions." A Physicist from the U.S Army. http://www.theage.com.au/frontpage/2.../frontpage.pdf
We've seen some pretty out there solar installations, but JAXA, the Japanese space agency, is about to get really far out with its latest project: a space-based solar array that beams power back to Earth. The agency is set to begin testing on the microwave power transmission system on February 20th, with an attempt to beam enough power over the 2.4GHz band to power a household heater at 50 meters (164 feet).
Japan's space agency planning space-based solar power arrays
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