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Xinhua News Agency of China reports that in the coming years, the Academy of Space Technology (ACT) of the country will build and will launch into orbit a solar power station that is assembled from stars will transmit energy to the Earth around the clock using microwave radiation and lasers.
ACT officer Wang Li told reporters that this is not done not only to provide China with readily available energy, but also in order to strengthen global cooperation, since such a limitless clean and cheap energy can be received by residents of those areas of the planet, where natural energy resources are very scarce.
The scientist also emphasized that solar energy is used in the present is still very weak due to the low solar efficiency panels, the lack of perfect drives, but most importantly – by the reason for its inaccessibility on the surface of the Earth. Completely different the point is to collect solar energy in space, and then send it to anywhere on the planet. It’s effective, easily accessible and ultimately account will be cheaper …
For the construction of a base in Chongqing (southwest of China), which should become a testing ground for new developments needed To solve this problem, about $ 29 million has already been allocated USA. The first results on the development of solar energy in space Chinese designers and scientists expect as early as 2021.
China Power Station
