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Japan Wants to Power 300,000 Homes With Wireless Energy From Space


Japan's Wireless, Power-Generating, Solar Satellite Inhabitat

Japan has serious plans to send a solar-panel-equipped satellite into space that could wirelessly beam a gigawatt-strong stream of power down to earth and power nearly 300,000 homes.

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A Step Closer to Solar Power in Space

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and IHI Corporation are undertaking an ambitious project of $ 21bn. They are aspiring to design and develop a Space-based solar farm that would generate 1GW of power. This will require an area of four square kilometer consisting of rows of solar panels. This space solar farm will be housed 36,000km above the surface of the earth.
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Mitsubishi, IHI to Join $21 Bln Space Solar Project (Update1)

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MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Changes for the Better
Space Systems
Replicating Space on Earth
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While the project might sound like science-fiction now, it likely that the landscape will be more favorable in 30 years (strict carbon emissions caps will make clean energy more cost-competitive, for example).

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