Floating solar farm could power a million homes
Europe might one day be powered by giant floating solar panels orbiting the planet.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has unveiled a plan to harvest the sun’s energy in space and beam it back down to Earth.
The technology is still in the preliminary testing phase – but the end goal is the construction of a 2km long solar space farm, generating as much energy as a nuclear power plant.
The farm would orbit an eye-watering 36,000 km above the Earth.The ESA have partnered with Airbus – a European multinational aerospace corporation – to develop ‘wireless power transmission’ to capture this 24-hour source of electricity and beam it down to us.
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