Japan planning $21bn solar power station in space

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1GW project aims to transmit solar energy to Earth within three decades

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 (£13bn)...

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