The renewable energy concept has been around for decades and as the space race with.
China solar panels from space.
Space based solar farms like the one china is planning could harness the sun s energy continuously offering an alternative to terrestrial wind and solar power.
Because the sun always shines in space an orbital solar power.
The state owned china aerospace science and technology corporation hopes to be operating a commercially viable solar space station by 2050 according to a recent report in the country s official.
China is planning to send a ground breaking solar energy plant into space that could provide enough power for every person on earth with minimal environmental impact according to experts.
The market is really big she says.
Only last week we reported that china was planning to build the world s first solar power station to be positioned in earth s orbit.
China s academy of space technology is working on an orbital power plant that would capture solar energy in space and beam it back to earth.
The china academy of space technology corporation claims such a set up could reliably supply energy 99 per cent of the time at six times the intensity of solar installations on earth.