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A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

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One, Solaren, even signed a power-purchase agreement to deliver 200 megawatts to utility customers in California by 2016 and made bold predictions that space solar plants would enter mass production in the 2020s. It would take two or three of these giant satellites to replace one large retiring coal or nuclear power station.

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