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China Is Building a Solar Station in Space That Could Generate Practically Endless Power
It’s coming to a cosmos near you in 25 years!
“It is as significant as moving the Three Gorges Dam to a geostationary orbit 36,000km (22,370 miles) above the Earth,” Long Lehao, a rocket scientist and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), said in a lecture reported by the South China Morning Post. Space-based solar power (SBSP) stations work by using a system of mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto panels, which then generate electricity. According to the South China Morning Post, many are calling space-based solar power stations the “ Manhattan Project ” of the energy world.
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