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Total number of Space Energy Headlines: 1092
Solar Power, Origami-Style
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory : Date: 2014-08-15
Researchers say origami could be useful one day in utilizing space solar power for Earth-based purposes. Imagine an orbiting power plant that ...
What If Giant Space-Based Solar Panels Could Beam Unlimited Power To The Earth?
Source: Business Insider : Date: 2014-08-12
Some scientists think humans could be getting clean power collected from solar panels in space and beamed back down to Earth in our lifetime, and ...
What If Giant Space-Based Solar Panels Could Beam Unlimited Power To The Earth?
Source: Business Insider : Date: 2014-08-11
The beam is controlled by two engineers in a space station. ... a spacecraft engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, told Business Insider.
Solar Power Space Engine Uses No Propellant
Source: The Green Optimistic : Date: 2014-08-08
Once in space, unobstructed views make solar power the perfect source of continuous energy, but to move around still requires propellant.
Rosetta shows - we can keep space plutonium-free!
Source: The Ecologist (blog) : Date: 2014-08-06
A demonstration that in space as on Earth, solar power is an alternative to dangerous nuclear power is to come tomorrow when a solar-powered ...
EmDrive: Could Microwave Thrusters be Key to Ending the Global Energy Crisis?
Source: International Business Times UK : Date: 2014-08-06
What if we could make solar power satellites cheap enough to launch into orbit? Nasa is now testing out a space propulsion technology originally ...
Solar vs nuclear power in space
Source: Enformable : Date: 2014-08-04
A demonstration that in space as on Earth solar power is an alternative to dangerous nuclear power is to come this week when a solar-powered ...
Solar in Space: Could Japan Become the Next Saudi Arabia?
Source: NASDAQ : Date: 2014-08-04
The biggest problem with laser-transmitted, space-based solar power (SBSP), is that each laser satellite could only generate 1 MW to 10 MW of power.
How many solar panels would it take to power Earth?
Source: Christian Science Monitor : Date: 2014-07-30
What would a world powered by solar energy alone look like? According to one study, it would need to be enough solar panels to fill an area ... to imagine the land space needed to build enough solar panels to power the world, ...
To infinity and beyond: quest for resources enters its space age
Source: The National : Date: 2014-07-27
Space-based solar power has also attracted attention. Orbiting solar panels, transmitting power to receiving stations on Earth via microwave beams, ...
Sponge Converts Sunlight Into Steam for Electricity
Source: Discovery News : Date: 2014-07-23
One hundred billion times more power than humanity currently needs is available right now, out in space. It comes through solar wind, a stream of ...
India's Building a Huge Floating Solar Farm (This Is Just the Start)
Source: Gizmodo : Date: 2014-07-08
Solar power is quickly coming into its own, growing some 35 percent ... a solid intermediary step until we get those space-based solar farms up and ...
Goleta Based Space Company Could Power NASA To Mars
Source: KEYT : Date: 2014-07-02
What grabbed the attention of America's space program is the revolutionary concept of a Roll-Out Solar Array or ROSA. It looks like a giant solar panel ...
Peter E. Glaser, 90; engineer hoped to harvest sun's energy
Source: Boston Globe : Date: 2014-06-22
But his advocacy for solar power placed him at the forefront of alternative ... Space science was comparatively new when Dr. Glaser conceived of his ...
NSS Pays Tribute to Space Based Solar Power Pioneer Peter Glazer
Source: Space Ref (press release) : Date: 2014-06-14
(Washington DC, June 12, 2014) National Space Society pays its respects to Dr. Peter Glaser, who in the late 1960s envisioned a way to harness ...
Peter Glaser, Who Envisioned Space Solar Power, Dies at 90
Source: New York Times : Date: 2014-06-06
Peter Glaser, Who Envisioned Space Solar Power, Dies at 90 ... Peter Glaser drew interest with an article he wrote in 1968 titled “Power From the Sun: ...
Time to regain our vision
Source: Miami News Record : Date: 2014-05-31
It's possible — there's already been a small-scale technology demonstrator and it worked — to literally beam power back to Earth. Space-based solar ...
Space-based power stations on the horizon
Source: The Japan Times : Date: 2014-05-28
Space-based solar power could eventually prove to be an alternative source of electricity for Japan, as the country struggles to find the best energy ...
Generating Solar Power In Space May Be A Fantasy, But It's A Good Fantasy
Source: Co.Exist : Date: 2014-05-24
Research teams around the world are slowly solving the big challenges of harnessing the sun's rays from space. Here are three promising projects.
Space-based techniques can successfully verify international regulations on fossil energy emissions
Source: Phys.Org : Date: 2014-05-21
To verify emissions from the San Juan and Four Corners coal-fired power plants, the Los Alamos team deployed ground-based solar spectrometers ...
Building a bridge to space solar power for terrestrial use
Source: The Space Review : Date: 2014-05-13
Geoffrey Landis is quoted as saying that “electrical power [produced and utilized] in space has an effective price tag that is 10,000 times the price of ...
Fukushima Legacy Pt. I: Japan Plans Mankind's First Solar Farm
Source: DailyTech : Date: 2014-05-09
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released a proposal calling for a space-based solar power station. The plan calls for ...
Japanese Aerospace Agency Plans for Space-Based Solar Energy Farm by 2030
Source: Headlines & Global News : Date: 2014-05-08
"If humanity truly embraces space-based solar power, a ring of satellites in orbit could provide nearly unlimited energy, ending the biggest conflicts ...
Solar Energy Electricity Farm in Space: Has Potential, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Says Possible by 2030
Source: Latin Post : Date: 2014-05-08
A power source from outer space - solar energy. A series of platforms installed with huge groups of solar panels will be launched to orbit the planet, ...
Could an solar farm in SPACE power our future? Japan plans to beam 1GW of energy from satellite to Tokyo in 2040
Source: Daily Mail : Date: 2014-05-01
Solar power has had a difficult start on Earth thanks to inefficient panels and high costs. But in space, scientists believe it could transform the way we ...
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