Pacific Gas & Electric is seeking approval from state regulators for an agreement to purchase power over a 15-year period from Solaren Corp., an 8-year-old company based in Manhattan Beach, CA. Their goal is start beaming down power in 2016.
Solaren Corp. wants to build big solar panels in orbit and then beam the energy down to the surface. This isn’t new technology. The concept is decades old. Science Fiction author Larry Niven mentioned it in his 1990 short story, The Return of William Proximire.
One of the common objections against this clear source of electrical energy has been from environmental groups who claim the area the energy is received (typically in the microwave frequency range) would not be optimal for animal life.
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