🤯 What if giant solar stations in space could provide clean electricity to Earth 24 hours a day, even at night?
Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) is a futuristic energy technology that collects sunlight in space and wirelessly transmits the energy back to Earth.
Watch the animation: sunlight travels to a solar satellite in space. The satellite converts it into energy and beams it wirelessly back to Earth.
At night, your solar panels stop generating electricity.
Clouds can also reduce solar power production.
But in space, sunlight is available almost continuously.
A solar power station orbiting Earth could generate electricity all day and all night.
Space-Based Solar Power uses large solar arrays mounted on satellites to collect sunlight outside Earth's atmosphere.
The collected energy is converted into microwaves or laser energy and transmitted to receiving stations on Earth.
Many scientists believe Space-Based Solar Power could become one of humanity's largest clean energy sources during the 21st century.
Future solar satellites may provide electricity to entire countries directly from orbit.