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Article: Japan: Japan planning $21bn solar power station in space.
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- September 3, 2009
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Byline: prashant03
Japan is developing a giant solar power space generator that it expects to begin transmitting solar energy to earth from an orbit 36,000km above the earth's within the next 30 years.
The $21bn ([pounds sterling]13bn) government-backed project includes plans for the construction of a solar space station comprising four square kilometres of solar panels with a total capacity of 1GW enough to supply about 294,000 homes in Tokyo, according to a statement posted yesterday on the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry web site.
Over the next four years, the project will focus on developing technology that will send the electricity ...