I guess it is obvious by now to everyone that the world will soon be plunged into an energy crisis, no thanks to growing economies in the east as well as the general decadence in the west, but there are citizens from all walks of life who think otherwise and try to manufacture their lives as green as possible. Relying on nuclear potential alone is a wee bit too dangerous IMHO, so that plan by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to build a Space Solar potential System (SSPS) gets my thumbs-up. The end outcome would be to see the SSPS

running by the year 2030 comes around, where huge solar collectors in geostationary orbit will convert sunlight into microwave beams that are soon after sent to receiving stations on earth 36,000 km downwards and subsequently converted into electricity for everyday consumption. One thing’s for certain though, while it sound much safer than having a nuclear reactor blow up, what happens whether the SSPS experiences a technical breakdown? Do we need to send a rocket up into space just to fix it?

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