SpacePoW - Chewing News for Appreciation

bitworkers (52)in #spacepow • 7 years ago (edited)

SpacePoW is a project that aims to put in orbit Solar Panels and use the energy harvested from the Sun to power bitcoin miners.

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In this part, I'm going to put up a "chew" of info I've carefully been harvesting for quite some time about the viability of using Solar Panels in Earth orbit.

Japan comes closer to beaming solar power from SPACE: Mitsubishi makes breakthrough in sending energy wirelessly

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2993973/Japan-comes-closer-beaming-solar-power-SPACE-Mitsubishi-makes-breakthrough-sending-energy-wirelessly.html

This was published in 2015, the article reports that japanese scientists have successfully transmitted energy wirelessly from space to Earth.

How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm

http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/how-japan-plans-to-build-an-orbital-solar-farm

By John MacNeill, informing that the SSBC project is a real goal from the japanese government. Specially, after the tragedy of Fukushima, japanese government started to look up for new and safe ways to produce energy.

Meet JAXA - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

http://global.jaxa.jp/

The japanese agency has technology and a roadmap to build from ground up orbital structures designed to start harvesting energy and beaming it down to Earth.

A YouTube Reference

SpaceX Falcon9 and Blue Origin Glenn

http://www.spacex.com/falcon9

https://www.blueorigin.com/

It is a necessity to have rockets that can launch, go into orbit and come back to Earth in order to have a sustainable bitcoin space miner, the SpacePoW project working. SpaceX and Blue Origin are private companies pushing forward this frontier.