Getting Green Off The Grid

Fascinating. Especially the part about cooking birds.

SPACE.com — Solar Power From Space: A Better Strategy for America and the World?

The basic idea: build huge satellites in Earth orbit to gather sunlight, convert it to electricity, and beam the energy to Earth using microwaves. We know we can do it, most satellites are powered by solar energy today and microwave beaming of energy has been demonstrated with very high efficiency. We’re talking about SSP - solar satellite power.

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