Solar Panels In Space

Here is some interesting techno-thinking:

The fact that greenhouse gases capture the sun's refected heat as it drifts back to space and warms Planet Earth has gotten people thinking about ways to intercept the sun as it enters the atmosphere. Sometimes this is to block its rays and sometimes its to beam the captured energy down in a more concetrated form.

Discovery Magazine reports:

"By 2016, the energy powering some California homes may come from solar panels orbiting the planet. California’s largest electric utility has announced plans to purchase energy from Solaren Corp., a startup company that hopes to launch the first commercial test of space solar power. Solaren would generate the power using solar panels in Earth orbit and convert it to radio-frequency transmissions that would be beamed down to a receiving station in Fresno…."" See Full Article