The Weekly Anthropocene, January 11 2023
Dispatches from the Wild, Weird World of Humanity and its Biosphere
Space Solar Power
As terrestrial renewable energy advances by leaps and bounds, a new satellite launch has taken the first steps of a long journey towards a new frontier: generating clean energy for Earth from space with space-based solar power (which in theory could easily supply all of humanity’s energy needs). On January 3, 2023, a 50-kilogram prototype Caltech satellite named the “Space Solar Power Demonstrator” (SSPD) was launched into orbit on a SpaceX rocket.
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