This month Solaren's plan to generate electricity for California from solar panels based in space was approved.Solaren anticipates generating 1,700 gigawatt-hours of electricity a year through a 15-year contract with PG&E beginning in 2016. First, a ground-based receiving station must be built in Fresno and a satellite launched into space.
The idea of space based power is simple - collect more energy outside of the atmosphere 24 hours a day and beam it down to the earth via radio waves.
The idea was first postulated in the 1940s by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, took more solid shape form the 1960s onwards and captured the public imagination in films like 1995's GoldenEye. The real Dwapara Yuga innovation is not so much the technological solution but rather the forward looking energy policies held in California that lead not only the rest of the United States but the world.
Space based power -- cleanly capturing energy over distance and overcoming Kali Yuga era political support for global warming, war-sponsoring fossil fuels makes it a poster child for Dwapara Yuga consciousness.
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