$21bn JAPAN SPACE TO EARTH SOLAR POWERING Tokyo

24hours Solar power, no batteries

Put your solar collectors in geostationary orbit (22,300 miles/35,700 km) where they'll get direct sunlight 24/7,

and beam down the energy using microwaves. Japan is shaking Solar up.

Japan's Space Solar Power Systems (SSPS)

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Space Solar Power Systems (SSPS), which beams the electricity using microwaves from space through the ionosphere,

the outermost layer of the earth's atmosphere