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Beamed Space Solar Power Plant To Open In 2016?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the duck-duck-burn dept.

Eric_S writes "Anybody who managed to get a decent city going in Sim City 2000 remembers the microwave power plant; now it seems like a real-world equivalent might be coming up on the horizon. The Pacific Gas and Electricity Company, per this 'interview' with the CEO of Solaren on their affiliated site, announced PG&E's plans to buy 200MW of base-load power from a Solaren beamed space solar power plant by 2016." I wish the skeptic in me would be quiet.

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  1. Re:For specific applications, YES! (Remote Militar by daem0n1x · · Score: 0, Troll

    You don't have power on top of a mountain in Dumbfuckinstan? Why the hell did you go there?

  2. Re:My religion, or yours? by geekoid · · Score: 0, Troll

    Stop confusing provable science with religion.

    And yes, this is a hare brained idea.

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