The largest energy project in space.

There is another race for space energy, space solar energy and China is also in this race and it is very serious, in mid-January data was leaked about a megaproject that China has to build a gigantic plant in the Earth's orbit, according to the media it would have so much power that it could produce as much energy as the oil on Earth currently produces.

The information arose from a conference by the Chinese engineer Long Lehao, who is one of the geniuses of Chinese astronautics, since he is the designer of the Chinese long-range rockets. Furthermore, the conference was organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the potential of this solar energy is enormous.

There are no images of the Chinese project, but I have images of the European Space Agency project because this is a race, there is China, there is the European Space Agency, there is the United States that has also done something and Japan has also made its contributions in this sector.

This Chinese scientist assured at the conference that this enormous solar power plant can have a similar impact to moving the Three Gorges Dam to a gestationary orbit, so that you have a reference, this dam that is located in the middle section of the Yangtze River that is in the center of China is the largest hydroelectric project in the world and generates 100,000 million kW hours of electricity per year, it is something beastly, it is so beastly that NASA at the time said that this dam is so big that If the mass of water contained inside were completely filled, it would cause a lengthening of the days on Earth, a tiny 0.06 microseconds but it would alter the rotation of the Earth, that would be the volume of energy that a solar power plant in space could have.

The previous Image is the European Solaris project, because Europe is thirsty for energy, let's see if the hydrogen foundations are serious and have the potential that they have said they have, because if not we are going to have a bad time in this century, China's project would be rectangular or circular it is not clear, for now we are going to see a prototype, in fact in 2014 the Chinese Academy of Space Technology proposed a station 11.8 km long, that is the size of an island and with a circular transmission antenna 1 km in diameter, then in 2014 the University of Sidang published a study for a spherical station with a diameter of 8 km in diameter that is still a beast and another with a colossal 10 km in diameter, simply colossal, it has no other qualifier.

These stations would be in geostationary orbit about 36,000 km from the Earth. This orbit has the advantage that the structure would be fixed on a point on the Earth, which would also facilitate the transmission of energy because in the end what is interesting is to capture the energy from space and send it to the Earth. The plant could also collect solar energy continuously 24 hours a day, without the problem of having a cloudy sky or a storm or a snowfall or dust, because many times they talk about putting plates solar parks, solar parks in the Sahara desert and yes it would be a good idea but it depends on which part of the Sahara desert, the Sahara desert is very varied there are rocky areas that could be fine but if you put it in a dusty area you would have to develop some system to clean the panels every now and then.

Being able to collect energy 24 hours a day and not have cloud problems, we must add that the energy captured in space is 10 times more intense than what we capture on the surface of the Earth, this is so, because there is no problem of the atmosphere layer there, the Earth's atmosphere disperses the solar rays so that not all of them reach the solar panel, many remain dispersed.

The previous proposals are colossal but of course first you have to make prototypes, you cannot start building a solar plant of 10 km in diameter without obviously having done tests first, so what they want to do first is one of 1 km in diameter which in itself is an enormous size 1 km in diameter, that prototype should be ready or at least in large part in the year 2030 and the large plant, whether the 10 km or the 8 km one, is planned to operate at full speed in the year 2050, so they will have to start building it, they already have rockets, they have elements to do it.

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