Holy shit, Japan is getting prepped to drop $21 billion on a solar power station in space, one that will beam enough energy back to Earth to power 294,000 homes. With no cables.
The whole deal is being put together by Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and industrial design company IGI Corp. The plan involves a gigantic solar panel floating around in space, soaking up a gigawatt of energy and beaming it to Earth without the use of cables. And they hope to have it ready to rock within four years.
Pretty amazing stuff. Here’s hoping it works well and doesn’t end up giving the entire country of Japan cancer. Thanks for testing that whole thing out for us, guys!
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WHAT THE! I do not see how this can work. A power plant in space…
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Not in America! Again! We don’t even know how to engineer our own motorcars any more. America slides towards the same abyss that swallowed the former U.S.S.R. America, dead on the water, dependent on NASA for technology? NASA dies as we speak. What the Hell happened? We used to lead the world, not follow it. GM(America) socialized to survive, and GM(Shanghai) turns 300% profit this year? They get dividends we get the Volt! Good for Japan – better wild far out and on the knife-edge of possible than not at all, like America.
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