Already thought of an energy plant in space? Well, this is what China has been planning for some time and daring construction is intended to be a spatial equivalent of the famous three throat dam. Get to know the daring Chinese Academy of Engineering project.
Unlike Biggest hydroelectricIn space, the plant will not be driven by water, but will feed on solar energy. The advantage is that panels could receive sunlight 24 hours a day, without depending on the cycles of the day and night or the interference of the cloud.
The mega -structure in space is extremely daring
According to Iflscience, in a recent conference, Long Lehao, a rocket scientist and a member of the Academy of Chinese Engineering (CAE), highlighted the magnitude of the project. “We are now working on this project. It is as significant as moving three throat to a geostationary orbit 36,000 km on Earth.”
Once completed, the Orbital station has the potential to generate impressive energy. According to Long Lehao, “the energy collected in a year would be equivalent to the total amount of oil that can be extracted from the Earth.”
How to bring that energy to Earth
In addition to the logistics challenge of using rockets to install this size in spaceThere is still a need to create a means of transferring this energy to Earth.
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The proposed solution is the wireless transmission, through high energy radio waves, which would be received by terrestrial stations ready to convert this energy into useful electricity. But that is far from something simple.
Lucas Soares is a graduate journalist at Mackenzie’s Presbyterian University and is currently a publisher of Science and Digital Look Space.
