NASA tries solar space mirriors SPS-ALPHA to microave beam energy to earth
Post date: Apr 12, 2012 3:08:29 PM
SPS-ALPHA machine will harvest solar radiation and beam it back to Earth
Cocktail hour for ET? Nasa design to harvest energy from the sun
Solar energy harvester will beam energy to Earth in form of microwaves
Huge solar panel would float in space
Made of thousands of curved mirrors
Solaren Corp
NASA’s announcement comes after regulators in California approved a contract with US firm Solaren Corp to supply space based solar power to a company in the US state as early as 2016.
SPS-ALPHA, or Solar Power Satellite
John Mankins, who runs California based firm Artemis Innovation Management Solutions, said the
SPS-ALPHA, or Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large PHased Array, could become a reality one day.
PV to Microwave
The inside of the SPS-ALPHA would also be lined with photovaltic panels which convert the sun’s energy into microwaves.
source: dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech