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One small step for solar? Firm envisions solar panels on moon.
Source: Christian Science Monitor : Date: 2013-12-03
Space-based solar panels have been researched by some of the more fanciful scientists on the planet for quite some time based on the clear advantages that ...
Solar enthusiasts rays idea of 'leccy farms on MOON, drones
Source: Register : Date: 2013-12-02
Ever since the Golden Age era of science fiction, space-based power stations have ... to back it to create a proof-of-concept for a drone-borne solar power plant.
This Japanese Company Wants to Power the Entire Earth With the Moon
Source: PolicyMic : Date: 2013-11-29
Japan's Shimuzu Corporation has an insane plan to turn the moon into a gigantic solar power plant. The catastrophe at the Fukushima nuclear power plant has made the Japanese think much more seriously about alternative energy, and Shimuzu is...
Can 3-D Printing Turn Space-Based Solar Into a Reality?
Source: Greentech Media : Date: 2013-11-28
For space based solar power (SBSP), there would be two basic steps, Hoyt explained. First, the 3D printer would build a carbon fiber truss structure that would ...
Drones to be power plants in the sky, beam energy back to earth
Source: Treehugger : Date: 2013-11-26
Move aside, high-altitude kite turbines and space solar arrays. ... New Wave Energy UK states in a press release: "The technology is a wireless solution which ...
Boeing Subsidiary Sets Solar Cell Efficiency World Record
Source: Today's Energy Solutions : Date: 2013-11-19
Spectrolab, part of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, is the world's leading merchant supplier of high-efficiency multi-junction solar cells and panels for ...
Solar lasers, ocean power and volcanoes: unusual energy sources of the future
Source: CNN : Date: 2013-11-13
Why with volcanoes, waves, wet wood and solar power from space. ... Putting solar panels into orbit offers a few obvious advantages over regular solar power ...
Space Solar Power: Could Crowdfunding Change The World?
Source: Crowdfund Insider : Date: 2013-10-30
John C. Mankins is President of Artemis Innovation Management Solutions LLC. He is an “internationally recognized leader in space systems and technology innovation, and as a highly effective manager of large-scale technology R&D programs.” Mankins also spent 25 years at ...
Japan to capture sunlight from orbit through spatial power stations
Source: The Tokyo Times : Date: 2013-10-08
JAXA, Japan's space agency, is planning to use power stations in orbit, in order to capture solar energy and send it down to Earth. The method could be a green ...
Space News: Several NASA spacecraft track energy through space
Source: Lake County News : Date: 2013-10-05
Understanding the changes energy from the sun undergoes as it travels away and out into space is crucial for scientists to achieve their goal of some day ...
Japan Wants To Harvest Solar Power From Space By 2030 (w/video)
Source: Gas 2.0 : Date: 2013-10-05
Japan Wants To Harvest Solar Power From Space By 2030 (w/video) ... space agency, which has unveiled plans to harvest solar power from space, transmitting ...
Japan Plans To Generate Solar Power In Space, And Send It To Earth
Source: The9Billion : Date: 2013-10-04
Japan's space agency, JAXA, is planning to harvest energy from solar power-generating satellites, and send it back down for use on the Earth's surface.
Japan to launch space-based solar power system by 2030
Source: Treehugger : Date: 2013-10-03
On Earth, harvesting solar energy is limited to daylight hours, and is affected by weather conditions and the seasons of the year. But in space, those constraints ...
EMCORE receives AURP's Innovation Award for high-efficiency multi-junction solar PV cells
Source: solarserver.com : Date: 2013-10-02
According to the company, EMCORE's high-efficiency multi-junction solar cells have led the way in the transformation of the space solar power industry over the ...
Satellite proposal wins national aeronautics and astronautics competition
Source: Daily Illini : Date: 2013-09-30
For their senior design project, their aerospace engineering professor, David Carroll, asked them to design and propose a plan for a space-based solar power ...
Japan aims to beam solar energy down from orbit
Source: Sen - Space exploration network : Date: 2013-09-28
Now JAXA is aiming to set up a Space Solar Power System (SSPS) by 2030. An array of mirrors would sit in geostationary orbit to collect solar energy and then ...
Could Satellites Beam Solar Power from Space to Earth?
Source: Clean Energy Authority : Date: 2013-09-24
Satellites could beam solar power from space to earth It's a wild idea, but scientist John Mankins believes technology has advanced to the point where we can ...
Capturing Solar Energy in Space for the World's Remotest Region
Source: Fox Business : Date: 2013-09-20
It may sound like a 1970s sci-fi flick starring the likes of Darth Vader or Captain Kirk. But as the debate rages on in Washington over green energy, one former ...
Solar Power Satellite: A Better Way to Power the Planet?
Source: Wall Street Pit : Date: 2013-09-20
A NASA veteran, aerospace entrepreneur and space-based solar power (SBSP) expert, Mankins designed what may be the world's first practical orbital solar ...
Harnessing Solar Power From Space
Source: HispanicBusiness.com : Date: 2013-09-11
When we first heard about the Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large Phased Array (SPS-ALPHA)--a proposed flower-shaped solar power energy collector ...
The man behind NASA's first manned space flights wants astronauts back on the moon
Source: The Verge : Date: 2013-09-04
NASA has big plans for its future space travel, but one of the agency's earliest luminaries thinks it's on exactly the wrong track. The Houston Chronicle has interviewed Chris Kraft, NASA's first flight director and the man who oversaw its first human spaceflight, first human orbital flight, and first spacewalk, as well as the director of flight operations for the ...
Deliver Solar Power From Solar Panels In Space - NASA's "SPS-ALPHA" Project
Source: CrazyEngineers : Date: 2013-08-31
NASA's engineers are planning to deliver solar energy on Earth via platforms located in the orbit. John Mankins is heading the project which is in development ...
This Satellite Could Be Beaming Solar Power Down from Space by 2025
Source: Motherboard (blog) : Date: 2013-08-24
A NASA veteran, aerospace entrepreneur, and space-based solar power (SBSP) expert, Mankins designed the world's first practical orbital solar plant. It's called ...
India, US Science Body Launch Space Solar Power Initiative
Source: India West : Date: 2013-06-27
"Time has arrived for us to together attempt to give a direction and momentum to this movement to realize space solar power and its enabling technologies through international collaboration that can help rebuild our environmentally vulnerable planet ...
The Origins of Solar Energy Reliability
Source: Energy Collective : Date: 2013-06-20
During the oil crises of the 1970s, the Department of Energy funded a proposal to transform solar technologies developed to power early space exploration. “It was the beginning of the terrestrial PV program,” explained Ronald Ross, who was the NASA-Jet ...
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