Chinese scientists have announced a plan to build an enormous, 0.6 mile (1 kilometer) wide solar power station in space that will beam continuous energy back to Earth via microwaves.
The task, which will see its parts pretending to be a geostationary orbit above Earth’s super-heavy rockets, was dubbed “another three-gorges prey assignment above the earth. “
The 3 Gorges dam, located in the middle of the Yangtze River in the Middle of China, is the giant hydroelectric allocation in the global and generates one hundred billion kilowatt hours of the electric year. According to a NASA scientist, the dam is so giant that, if it is absolutely filled, the dough of the internal contained water would make the days of the earth bigger from 0. 06 microseconds.
The new project, according to lead scientist Long Lehao, the chief designer of China’s Long March rockets, would be “as significant as moving the Three Gorges Dam to a geostationary orbit 36,000km (22,370 miles) above the Earth.”
“This is an incredible project to look forward to,” Long added during a lecture in October hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), as reported by the South China Morning Post. “The energy collected in one year would be equivalent to the total amount of oil that can be extracted from the Earth.”
Despite the recent advances in the cheap and the power of solar energy, the generation still faces some basic limitations, such as the intermittent cloud canopy and the maximum solar radiation that absorbs the environment before it reaches the ground.
Also read: NASA and Japan launch the 1st wooden satellite in the Global in orbit. Here’s why it can solve a massive challenge for our planet.
Scientists have proposed a series of solar power technologies founded in the area (SBSP) that often collect and transmit the power of sunlight in the area, where it is 10 times more intense than the surface of the earth.
But building an appropriately giant array would take many launches, meaning that most proposals failed to get off the ground.
—At the government provides an area area, of the satellite television company, $ 150,000
-NASA’s, NASA’s, is him, what will break today
—See a European satellite take a fiery fall through the atmosphere in world-1st mission
To overcome this challenge, Long and his team are working on the development of the Long March-9 (CZ-9) reusable heavy-lift rocket, which will have a lift capacity of at least 150 tons (136 metric tons).
Besides being used for satellites, the rocket will also be key to China’s plans to reach the moon — where it wants to build an international lunar research base by 2035.
China isn’t the only nation eyeing plans for solar satellite arrays. The U.S. companies Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, the European Space Agency, and Japan’s JAXA space agency have also been investigating the technology, with the latter scheduling the launch of a small, proof-of-concept satellite this year to assess its feasibility.
Ben Turner is based on editor in Live Science. It covers physics and astronomy, among other issues, such as generation and climate change. He graduated from the University College in London with a start in debris physics before education as a journalist. When he does not write, Ben likes to read literature, play the guitar and kiss with failures.
Chinese astronauts make fuel and oxygen in the area “artificial photosynthesis” from the first to their activities
Watch the SpaceX rocket explode on Grand Turk Island in a dramatic chimney and smoke
Ice age Europeans were 10 years old and were pierced through the cheek 30,000 years ago