JAXA Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:43:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Space Based Solar Power Brought a Step Closer to Earth https://www.greenoptimistic.com/space-based-solar-power/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/space-based-solar-power/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:43:23 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=53744 Capturing and sending solar power from space has just gotten real, as a the team of Japanese scientists demonstrated wireless transmission of energy from space for the first time. It was around this time last year, when we first told you about scientists working on a technology that can wirelessly send solar energy from space. It […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/space-based-solar-power/feed/ 1 53744 Space-Based Solar Power in Twenty-Five Years, Says JAXA https://www.greenoptimistic.com/space-based-solar-power-twenty-five-years-says-jaxa-20140515/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/space-based-solar-power-twenty-five-years-says-jaxa-20140515/#respond Thu, 15 May 2014 16:32:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47545 Solar power may not be the end-all be-all covering our energy needs, but it is clean, which makes it a good investment into our future. On problem, however, has to do with the efficiency of solar power. According to research, an oil well puts out about 27 W/m2 (watts per square meter), while PV (photovoltaic) […]

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