Esa mulls Solaris plan to beam solar energy from space
The European Space Agency considers a plan to collect solar energy in orbit and beam it to Earth. …
The US, China and Japan are also advanced in the race to develop space-based solar power and are expected to announce their own plans shortly. Separately from the ESA proposal, in the UK, a company, Space Solar, has been formed. It aims to demonstrate beaming power from space within six years, and doing so commercially within nine years.
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