The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has big plans: It wants to conquer outer space to generate solar energy by 2030. The idea is to collect solar power in space and beam it down to earth, in the form of lasers or microwaves. The so-called Space Solar Power System project is led by big corporations such as Mitsubishi, NEC, Fujitsu und Sharp.
As a first step, JAXA wants to deploy photovoltaic elements in outer space where they will be assembled in the form of dishes several square kilometers in size. Solar energy in space is about five times stronger than on earth, and the solar enery will be transformed into power in space.
The dishes are supposed to zap the lasers and microwaves to gigantic parabolic antennae located on earth, probably in remote areas such as dam reservoirs, for example. JAXA wants to begin conducting feasibility tests with a 100-kW demo system before eventually boosting that number to 1 Gigawatt.
I’m morbidly curious as to what might happen to any native wildlife flying or venturing through that “zap zone.”
I was thinking of more malicious things, like paring one with a spy satellite.
“Oh look, there’s Serkan writing another post for CrunchGear. Let’s zap him!”
LOL. very close to those in the gundam 00 anime. but instead of making a helluva orbital ring and massive towers to transfer the power generated, they zap them to earth. really, this is getting ridiculous. but if it were to success, i can’t imagine how the world would change. i know it is a good solution to the ever declining source of fossil fuel but, you see we’re talking about powers here. power is the source of conflict, as far as i can see…
write more about the developments and please tap the power at the earliest so that we can buy it from you, you dont know what power means to us. we r still in the dark. ENLIGHTEN US