Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Today's News: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and IHI Corporation are undertaking an ambitious
project of $ 21bn. They are aspiring to design and develop a Space-based solar
farm that would generate 1GW of power. This will require an area of four square
kilometers consisting of rows of solar panels. This space solar farm will be
housed 36,000km above the surface of the Earth. A model of the SPS2000, a 10 megawatt
demonstration solar-power satellite, has
already been designed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
(ISAS).Competing, it seems, is our own Californian Solaren Corp. Sometime before 2016, Solaren Corp. plans to launch the world's first orbiting
solar farm too.
However we manage to get our electricity in the future, EliteFixtures wants you to know that we plan on keeping our products on Earth, even if some of our ceiling lights look like saucers.