When one thinks of Space Solar power they think of something that is futuristic. In 1941, Issac Asmiov who wrote science fiction published a short story called “Reason.” In the short story, it talked about a space station that collected energy from the sun to send to other planets by the usage of microwave beams. In the story there is a line that says, “"Our beams feed these worlds energy drawn from one of those huge incandescent globes that happens to be near us. We call that globe the Sun ... "This was the first glimpse of space solar power. Dr. Peter Glaser created the concept of Space solar power 40 years ago when there was a time of panic, when many people were worrying about an energy crisis occurring. There was awareness that fossil
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The panels use low power radio waves to transmit the solar power onto the receiving panels that are on earth. The power that is produced can supply to electrical sources. The design of space solar power is composed into three parts. There needs to be a 1.) a collector of the solar power, 2.) a way of transmitting power to earth and 3.) a way to receive the power on earth. There two methods of conversion solar dynamic and photovoltaic. Solar dynamic uses mirrors to accumulate light on a boiler. While photovoltaic conversion uses semiconductor cells to convert photons in electric power. There is also wireless power transmission, which is a way of transferring energy from the collection and then sending it to Earth’s surface. This process would take place whether the usage of a microwave of laser radiation at a large range of frequencies. For solar space power to work, there needs to be environmentally friendly, economic launch vehicles. Currently the launch vehicles are pricey and they usually cause pollution problems. There needs to be large scale-in orbit construction and operations. For the solar power satellites to be able to gather large quantities of energy, they have to be large. One necessity is power transmission. There needs to be a way to transmit power from satellites to the earth’s surface with the least environmental …show more content…
It is overall a large array of photovoltaic cells on a satellite that orbits the earth. Sunlight is capture and converted to electricity from the photovoltaic panels. This will also work the same process as the ground base solar panels. These panels will be in the sunlight 24 hours every day this constantly gives a source of power; it is infinite. This means that it will be illuminated for 99% of the year. Since the earth’s axis is tilted, it is sunlight all the time whether one side of the earth is in darkness. Because there is no intense atmospheric conditions or nighttime, the suns energy is captured well in space than on
The panels use low power radio waves to transmit the solar power onto the receiving panels that are on earth. The power that is produced can supply to electrical sources. The design of space solar power is composed into three parts. There needs to be a 1.) a collector of the solar power, 2.) a way of transmitting power to earth and 3.) a way to receive the power on earth. There two methods of conversion solar dynamic and photovoltaic. Solar dynamic uses mirrors to accumulate light on a boiler. While photovoltaic conversion uses semiconductor cells to convert photons in electric power. There is also wireless power transmission, which is a way of transferring energy from the collection and then sending it to Earth’s surface. This process would take place whether the usage of a microwave of laser radiation at a large range of frequencies. For solar space power to work, there needs to be environmentally friendly, economic launch vehicles. Currently the launch vehicles are pricey and they usually cause pollution problems. There needs to be large scale-in orbit construction and operations. For the solar power satellites to be able to gather large quantities of energy, they have to be large. One necessity is power transmission. There needs to be a way to transmit power from satellites to the earth’s surface with the least environmental …show more content…
It is overall a large array of photovoltaic cells on a satellite that orbits the earth. Sunlight is capture and converted to electricity from the photovoltaic panels. This will also work the same process as the ground base solar panels. These panels will be in the sunlight 24 hours every day this constantly gives a source of power; it is infinite. This means that it will be illuminated for 99% of the year. Since the earth’s axis is tilted, it is sunlight all the time whether one side of the earth is in darkness. Because there is no intense atmospheric conditions or nighttime, the suns energy is captured well in space than on