Cali gives OK to Space Based Power Plant.

[Data Holmes]

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On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission gave its blessing to an agreement that would see the Pacific Gas and Electric Company buy 200 megawatts of power beamed down from solar-power satellites beginning in 2016.

Took long enough.

 

[CuttingEdge100]

How much energy could you beam down via radio-waves?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

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On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission gave its blessing to an agreement that would see the Pacific Gas and Electric Company buy 200 megawatts of power beamed down from solar-power satellites beginning in 2016.

Took long enough.

The Japanese are already in the process of getting one into space and something tells me it's going to be a lot bigger. LINK

 

[Alpha_Geek]

Beam spread from the Clark Belt says they damn well better cough up some powerful, reliable, and non-finicky masers for something like this to have any hope of commercial viability.

 

[JustAFriend]

Considering the fact that the Shuttle is going to be retired in 5 more flights and
we're going to struggle to get anything in orbit the size of a 1960's capsule,
I'd say the chances of putting up anything that can make USEFUL power as slim and none...

Your money just got flushed down the drain, kids....

(I was a huge proponent of the Orbital Solar Power Systems back in the '70s
and you can see how many of them we've got in orbit now.)