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The tragedy in Japan may draw a heavy line under nuclear expansion plans. Fukushima-1, which is already essentially turned into Chernobyl number 2, showed that energy, obtained at nuclear power plants, sooner or later it costs to humanity is too expensive.
In 2040, American scientists plan to create in space the most fantastic project is to hang the first one in orbit space power plant, it will produce a solar energy and will allow the United States to heat the whole country with the help of the sun.
This is an orbiting satellite that will hang in 36 thousand kilometers from our planet and collect the energy of the sun in special batteries to then transmit this energy to Earth and illuminate and to heat their cities. They will do it with the help of a huge a space umbrella that is completely covered with mirrors, from which rays are reflected on a solar array placed on space station. On it, this energy of the sun will be processed into microwaves and transmitted directly to Earth on special solar power plants.
Yuri Yaskov, corresponding member of the Russian Academy astronautics them. K.E. Tsiolkovsky: In space is full energy, about 1 square. m. of the earth accounts for one and a half kilowatts solar energy – this is a huge amount. If you look at Earth, falls on it approximately in translation to sunlight about 100 billion kilowatts, but this is light, it must first be turned into electricity from solar panels, and then transmit from space to The earth. Solar power plants will capture solar radiation sent from the orbital station and direct it to a transformer, there solar energy will turn into electricity, which will go through the wires to our outlets. According to preliminary it is estimated that such a power plant will be able to generate 10 million. kilowatts of electricity per day, exactly the same amount powerful hydroelectric power plants of our planet.
Another NASA project is the Scarab lunar rover. His American scientists developed in case the power of a solar power plant still not enough. As conceived by American scientists, this lunar rover will work directly on the moon, there he will rarely extract helium-3 gas found on our planet directly from the lunar soil, Then, with the help of the spacecraft, helium-3 will be delivered to Earth, where it will be processed on specially built helium atomic stations. This will allow us to warm and illuminate our planet as at least two thousand years without using any gas or oil at all.
Only one kilogram of helium-3 emits a huge the amount of energy – 19 megawatts, so much can be lit New York for 6 years. But most importantly – if on helium If the station crashes, then there are no irreversible consequences for ecology will not be, because helium-3 does not contain radioactive waste. While these expensive projects are being developed, global oil companies are eyeing Titan, the satellite of the planet Saturn. According to scientists, only a few decades later The third world war may break out on earth, because on titan giant oil reserves, which is located directly on the surface satellite, which means it doesn’t need expensive drilling rigs and equipment, only transport necessary a spaceship that delivers oil to Earth. According to analysts, the development of such a ship is underway in many countries of the world, but they are all strictly classified. The country that succeeds the first to reach Titan, will be able to provide resources for several centuries in advance.
Not only oil ends on Earth. At today’s pace iron ore mining may also be enough only for the next 10 years. It is possible that by 2050 ships for the delivery of fuel to Earth there will simply be nothing to build from, but scientists have found a solution to this problem – they plan to master asteroids, because the debris of the planets literally consists of iron, nickel, magnesium and even from gold and platinum, reports www.ctv.by.
Moon Sun Power Station
