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  Japan Planning Solar Power Station In Space

  11.15.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  

  Earlier this week the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced their plans to kill two pretty big birds with one stone.  The plan aimed at easing the country’s energy problems and solving global warming involves creating a miles-wide array of solar panels in orbit, and “beaming it” back down to earth with lasers or microwaves [...]