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Japan to operate solar energy station in outer space

By: intellectual

TOKYO: The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has big plans, as it wants to conquer outer space to generate solar energy by 2030. The idea is to collect solar power in space and beam it down to earth, in the form of lasers or microwaves. The so-called Space Solar Power System project is led by big corporations such as Mitsubishi, NEC, ...

10 days ago

Japan to operate solar energy station in outer space

By: arslannomercy

 TOKYO: The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has big plans, as it wants to conquer outer space to generate solar energy by 2030. The idea is to collect solar power in space and beam it down to earth, in the form of lasers or microwaves. The so-called Space Solar Power System project is led by big corporations such as ...

10 days ago

Go Team Go--2009 Solar Decathlon

By: AStepAbove

Coming soon to the National Mall in Washington, DC--the 2009 Solar Decathlon, student-designed solar homes sponsored by the Department of Energy. The competition involves 20 teams of students from national (and a few international) colleges and universities competing to design, build and operate the most "attractive, livable, and most ...

about 1 month ago

The Science of Light

By: fifileigh

    In the past year or so, many people have been talking about the end of the world on December 2012, where there will be a big disaster on Earth. Such ideas come from biblical prophecies that people tend to blow out of proportion, trying to make it more than it really is. While the rational people claim that it will take a longer time ...

24 days ago