2023-07-21 19:00:00
Sébastien Le Belzic / Photo credit: Daniel Pier / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP 9 p.m., July 21, 2023
Putting a network of solar power plants into orbit to produce energy. Thales, which specializes in aerospace, defence, security and land transport, should therefore be chosen next week by the European Space Agency (ESA) to conduct a feasibility study in order to provide the Earth with an almost unlimited source of energy.
Capturing solar energy in space and transmitting it to the ground. You have to have a little imagination, but the European Space Agency (ESA) wants to believe in it to achieve carbon neutrality. A constellation of solar power stations would be placed in orbit around the Earth, at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers, capable of supplying the planet with electricity at all times.
Solar panel farms built by 2030
Clean and limitless energy since these solar farms are above the clouds and therefore permanently receive the sun’s rays. The European Union believes in it and it is Thales which should take the lead next week of a consortium made up of a dozen European companies, such as Airbus, in order to study the feasibility of the project called Solaris.
So if this project becomes reality, we will know within two years. Solar panel farms will be built from 2030 directly in space by robots that will assemble this huge puzzle. Several problems remain to be solved, such as the storage of energy and above all its transport on earth.
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