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U.S. energy company agrees on solar power from space

By Fabio on Wednesday April 15th 2009 04:34 | Category: Hardware

Energy supplier Pacific Gas & Electric has signed a contract with the company Solar in 2016 to receive solar energy from space. Via a radio-frequency connection energy is sent to a terrestrial transmission station.

The California Solar company has plans ready to send satellites into space aimed to capture solar energy and send to earth. To this end, the large solar panels for satellites. Monday, the utility Pacific Gas & Electric Solar familiar with the sea to go for the supply of solar energy from space since 2016. The contract provides for the delivery of 200mW power from 2016, according to an interview with Solar-ceo Gary Spirnak in Next 100. These are base-load power, and thus to power 24 hours a day, 7 days per week, delivered. The company says so first space power station to build. This should be the solar energy into radio frequency energy, then to receiving stations on Earth sent. Solar points out that this technique is not new: satellites use the technology, albeit for other purposes, for decades to send data to the earth.

Solar panels in space would be able to produce eight to ten times as much energy than the ones on earth, including the absence of the filter effect of the atmosphere and because there are no seasons. By Sola Rens geosynchrone satellites in orbit around the earth rotating the sun shines 24 hours per day in addition to the solar cells. Solar points to illustrate a report from 2007 of the U.S. Department of Defense, which states that in a year with a kilometer long belt of solar satellites almost as much energy can be harvested as present in all currently known sources of oil.

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