Space Island Group has come up with an innovative proposal for space-based solar power satellites. Time Warner’s Business 2.0 (B20) magazine highlights on its March 2006 issue the SIG’s plan as part of its cover story, “An Entrepreneur’s Guide to the Galaxy.” It reviews the exploding number of private sector space projects.
These solar power satellites will convert sunlight into electricity, then use weak, pollution-free, environmentally safe microwave beams to send that energy down to simple antennas anywhere on Earth. These structures are designed by NASA.
It is in the next decade, SIG will begin placing huge, mile-wide sheets of solar cells in earth orbit, as the B20 reports.
From Business 2.0 magazine, via Gristmill
