Foreign media: China is advancing the "Solarmax Project" to build space-based solar power stations, with plans to conduct megawatt-level in-orbit verification around 2030. This technology involves satellites equipped with massive solar panels to collect energy, converting it into wireless microwave or laser beams transmitted to ground receiving stations, enabling continuous, round-the-clock power generation unaffected by weather, seasons, or day-night cycles.
Although this concept was first proposed in a science fiction novel as early as 1941 and technically designed in 1968, it has long remained stagnant due to engineering complexity and high launch costs.
With advancements in robotics, wireless power transmission technologies, and a dramatic drop in launch costs, the space race is heating up again. Chinese engineering academicians likened the project to "sending the Three Gorges Dam into geostationary orbit," highlighting its strategic ambition. It could potentially reshape the global clean energy landscape and enhance China's influence in space.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1860919788038155/
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