Researchers from Europe, Japan and the US are considering the viability of building giant solar panels in Earth’s lower orbit that would supply cheap, inexhaustible energy to industry and homes. Building a huge array outside the Earth’s atmosphere would have the advantage of having no clouds to interrupt the flow of solar energy to the arrays. Certainly a viable thought, but it’s a matter of developing the technology to make the solar panels cheaper, to send them into the sky and have the energy conversion to microwaves or optical lasers which then would beam the energy down to Earth.
Via: BBCnews
