The Asian giant has developed a facility to convert sunlight bounced off our planet in energy. It is scheduled to be completed later this year. Although it is not finished yet, energy transfer tests have already been done up to an altitude of approximately 300 meters.
The project is still in development
The idea for this project was born 11 years ago, but was paralyzed by different both economic and political pressures. However, the project has been resumed.
This Chinese station has the purpose of accumulating energy from the Sun wirelessly of solar panel power stations in orbit. The solar energy accumulated by satellites in space has the advantage that cannot be affected by the weather or by the darkness of the night.
That is, these solar satellites they will always be able to collect energy from the Sun without problem, unlike those on Earth who cannot do it at night or if the weather is very bad.
This is planned to be the the first large-scale power plant in the Asian country to do different tests and better understand this new way of obtaining energy.
System tests are being done
At the moment, a test power plant is being built for use in the next decade. Tests must be done low altitudes first to check that everything works well and then try with higher altitudes.
Finally, afterwards, the transmission of energy will be done wirelessly from orbit. It is expected that by 2050 China will have a commercial space solar power station In full operation.
Right now, the team is using balloons as a floating platform to do the power transmission tests, rising to a height of 300 meters.
So, let’s hope that researchers continue to develop this technology that would be very useful for the future.
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