{"id":1769,"date":"2014-05-05T14:34:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T18:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2014-05-05T14:34:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T18:34:45","slug":"japan-proposing-to-build-solar-power-sats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/japan-proposing-to-build-solar-power-sats\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Proposing to Build Solar-Power Sats"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent Japanese plan proposes to make the solar-power satellite, a long-time staple of science fiction, a reality.<\/p>\n

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\n(“C3-class Solar Flare Erupts on Sept. 8, 2010,” by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, on Flickr under Creative Commons.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Spurred on in part by the Fukushima disaster, Japan Has A Plan To Start Using Space-based Solar Power By The 2030s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They’ve devised a road map that describes a series of ground and orbital stations leading to the development in the 2030s of a 1-gigawatt commercial system \u2014 which is the same output as a typical nuclear power plant. Prior to this, they’d like to set up a 100-kW SPS version around 2020.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a very nice idea, and one that many of us have talked about (and written about<\/a>) for years. Unfortunately, until they solve the problems of<\/p>\n

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  1. getting equipment and material from Earth’s surface to orbit quicker, cheaper, and more reliably;<\/li>\n
  2. mining asteroids or the Moon for raw materials and processing them into the required end state; and<\/li>\n
  3. building large structures in orbit<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    the idea of having a demonstration in just over 5 years —\u00a0and a working model in 15! —\u00a0seems extremely optimistic.<\/p>\n

    But, here’s hoping! It would be grand.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A recent Japanese plan proposes to make the solar-power satellite, a long-time staple of science fiction, a reality. (“C3-class Solar Flare Erupts on Sept. 8, 2010,” by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, on Flickr under Creative Commons.) Spurred on in part by the Fukushima disaster, Japan Has A Plan To \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[386,29],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-space","tag-science-fiction-2","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}