Space-based solar power

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Space Based Solar Power

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  Part of the solar energy is lost on its way through the atmosphere by the effects of reflection and absorption.

  On the right: Space-based solar power systems convert sunlight to microwaves outside the atmosphere, avoiding these losses, and the downtime due to Earth's rotation, experienced by surface installations.
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  This is what an artist envisioned the Solar Power Satellite would look like. Shown is the assembly of a microwave transmission antenna. The solar power satellite was to be located in a geosynchronous orbit, 36,000 miles above the Earth's surface.Nasa 1976
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  Solar disk
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  Sun tower
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  A Lunar base with a mass driver (the long structure that goes toward the horizon). NASA conceptual illustration
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  Automation
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  Solar sail
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  Robonaut
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  rectenna on the moon, lunar solar power,Nasa
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  polycristalline cells in PV-array, RWE-Main-Cells 100 x 150 mm
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  PV-array, detail, Sunways cells
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  PV-arry, polycristalline cells, Q-Cells 5"
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  flower design
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  International_Space_Station
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  one cell
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  Dye sensitized cells
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  Black light test of Dawns GaAs triple-junction Solar cells
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  molton salt heat transfer