This endless source of energy can be collected and beamed back to receiving transmitters in the form of microwave energy so that it can be stored and used by man. Since the 60s, Vanguard I—the first solar powered satellite launched into orbit, has successfully celebrated its 50th anniversary last 17 March 2008. It is still expected to orbit Earth for at least another 148 years. It seems obvious that the limitless energy it presents paved way to reconsider this method of harnessing space energy by scientists. For one, it cannot be easily depleted unlike any other vast power resources found on the ground. It continues to beam energy 24 hours a day without any interruption. It also eliminates large, expensive and spacious power facility generators and storage making the power available anytime, anywhere through microwave transmissions. Imagine you only need a rectenna to have electricity? Space energy is still at its infancy. But the technology is growing too fast and the needs to execute it clamor for such hasty implementation. Improving launch capabilities and capacity, assembly in space, power transmission in a larger scope, debris hazard while in orbit and sudden solar winds can greatly affect the SBSPs. But Japan’s thinking is optimistic, as it aims to launch its first satellite that could wirelessly transmit Gigawatt-strong microwave beams back to planet Earth, each transmission is sufficient enough to power 300,000 households. The problems presented are not pressing enough to hamper such dream and ambition. If Japan can do it, others can too. The humanitarian and environmental benefits that Space Energy will give are very hard to ignore. Oil independency, stopping the depletion of natural resources and the disaster it presents (remember the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico), climate change reduction (due to no CO2 emission), rural electrification (wider reach thru wireless transmission) and elimination of radiation hazards from nuclear reactors are all favored for us to live in a brighter future that will take us to limitless space and endless energy—and that is Space Energy.
Beaming power to Earth from the universe is called Space Energy or Cosmic Energy. It is the same form of solar power found from outer space but has more intensity. This renewable energy is built-up of sunlight that can be captured and generated through Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP). Sunlight is more powerful outside the atmosphere for it is not dampened and reduced by any gases that surround the Earth nor unaffected by any weather.
This endless source of energy can be collected and beamed back to receiving transmitters in the form of microwave energy so that it can be stored and used by man. Since the 60s, Vanguard I—the first solar powered satellite launched into orbit, has successfully celebrated its 50th anniversary last 17 March 2008. It is still expected to orbit Earth for at least another 148 years. It seems obvious that the limitless energy it presents paved way to reconsider this method of harnessing space energy by scientists. For one, it cannot be easily depleted unlike any other vast power resources found on the ground. It continues to beam energy 24 hours a day without any interruption. It also eliminates large, expensive and spacious power facility generators and storage making the power available anytime, anywhere through microwave transmissions. Imagine you only need a rectenna to have electricity? Space energy is still at its infancy. But the technology is growing too fast and the needs to execute it clamor for such hasty implementation. Improving launch capabilities and capacity, assembly in space, power transmission in a larger scope, debris hazard while in orbit and sudden solar winds can greatly affect the SBSPs. But Japan’s thinking is optimistic, as it aims to launch its first satellite that could wirelessly transmit Gigawatt-strong microwave beams back to planet Earth, each transmission is sufficient enough to power 300,000 households. The problems presented are not pressing enough to hamper such dream and ambition. If Japan can do it, others can too. The humanitarian and environmental benefits that Space Energy will give are very hard to ignore. Oil independency, stopping the depletion of natural resources and the disaster it presents (remember the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico), climate change reduction (due to no CO2 emission), rural electrification (wider reach thru wireless transmission) and elimination of radiation hazards from nuclear reactors are all favored for us to live in a brighter future that will take us to limitless space and endless energy—and that is Space Energy.
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