In 2016 250 thousand houses in neighbourhood of Fresno (Fresno County) will begin to get electric power from space. If all will go according to plan, this project will become the first in the world the practically realized example of orbital sun power-station. Californian corporation Solaren made agreement with a local power company Pacific Gas & Electric, in obedience to which PG&E will buy out at Solaren electricity, produced in space. Prices — at the level of other renewable sources, and supplied
power will be 200 megawatt.It is important to mark that above the projects of orbital sun power-stations now specialists work in different countries (for example, in Japan). And, certainly, in the USA. There to similar researches such are connected "men of mark", as
NASA and Boeing.slozhnost’ of space power-station can show oneself excessive by comparison to the ordinary surface fields of sun batteries, but the supporters of the orbital system bargain that all difficulties (and high expenses), related to the project, will appear justified
by more high efficiency of the station and its continuous work. In fact on a geosynch sputnik is lighted up by a sun round-the-clock and kruglogodichno, while surface sun power-station can work only in the day-time, and that, if there is not a strong cloudiness.Solaren
— little company, counting while 10 scientists and engineers, but it intends the first to take a similar project to realization. For what the state of employees will be during a year megascopic to 100 persons, and, certainly, as partners will be attracted industrial
giants, that Boeing, and yet — Lockheed Martin. Negotiations go along with both firms, a chapter asserts Solaren Geri Spirnak (Gary Spirnak) is in an interview Next100.pri it, specialists mark Solaren, — for building and start of sun orbital power-stations it will not be required to create some
unbelievable new technologies or new rakety-nositeli. It is possible to treat already present.If shortly: 4 or 5 sputnikov of the system must be placed in a geostationary orbit. Sputniki will open out easy mirrors, by a diameter in hundreds of meters which will concentrate
light sun on already not so large arrays of sun batteries. The got energy will be regenerate in Svch-luchi, which sputniki and will point at Earth, where army of receiving aerials, occupying an area a few square kilometres, pr
microwave stream in electricity, passes membrana.ru.
