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Space based solar power?

by Tom Raftery on September 19, 2008 · 2 comments

in solar

I saw an announcement the other day on the National Space Society’s website about a breakthrough in Space-based solar power.
Normally the stuff of science fiction, it turns out that John C. Mankins, former manager of NASA’s Exploration Systems Research and Technology Program, performed a milestone demonstration of the critical technology enabling Space Solar Power: long-distance, [...]

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Photo Credit Pink Dispatcher
James and I had lunch the other day with Simon Wardley.
During the course of what turned out to be a wide-ranging discussion Simon brought up the topic of flexible solar panels. I was delighted to read today then that Xtreme Energetics and HP are teaming up to produce
a solar energy system [...]

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