Universal energy: Future energy source

Many strange ideas are proposed at the United Nations Environment Conference, from covering the sky with coal dust to prevent sunlight, to cultivate oceanic algae in the ocean to absorb CO gas ₂ from the atmosphere. While the ' big guys' are arguing about coal, oil and global warming, a small country at the Conference is heading towards the universe to find new energy.

Unlike other ideas, this idea is supported by a power agency - the Pentagon. The agency is also investigating the viability of a solar energy source from satellite space, an affordable, clean, safe, reliable, sustainable and affordable source of energy. Can develop for humanity.

Tommy Remengesau Jr, President of a small country in the western Pacific, said Palau was very interested in the idea.

Last October, the US Department of Defense quietly published a 75-page study for the National Space Security Office to conclude the cosmic energy source obtained from giant solar collectors. placed on satellites is a potential source of energy for US military plans around the globe .

Experts say that with technology today, it is quite possible that the cost of launching tons of devices into the air makes it extremely expensive. This is the time when Palau, a small island nation with only 20,000 inhabitants, contributed to this project.

Last September, an American intermediary Kevin Reed proposed at the 58th International Astronaut Congress in Hyderabad, India that Palau's deserted island of Helen could be the ideal place to test the project. This is by installing a 'rectifier antenna', or rectenna, to capture a mega-watt of energy transferred to earth via a satellite orbiting 300 miles from Earth.

This energy source is enough to supply 1,000 households but on that island the project will prove safe before installation in other places.

Reed said he hoped the 3-Swiss-German alliance would start producing the necessary solar panels within two years and would attract investment from companies that wanted to show progress. Its technology in equipment installation, satellite, technology transfer. Reed predicts the project will cost $ 800 million and be completed as early as 2012.

At the UN Environment Workshop in Bali in December 2007, a Reed partner discussed this idea with the Palau people who will benefit first when the project is expanded to residential areas. . President Palau said: 'We are very interested in alternative energy sources and if this is beneficial to Palau, we will definitely consider.'

NASA and space agencies of Japan and Europe have learned about space energy since the 60s of the 20th century, based on the basic theory that outer space solar is more effective in the atmosphere. Earth book 8 times.

The energy source is captured by networks that feed on electric antenna placed in space and converted into microwaves before moving back to Earth. On the earth this wave will be converted back to direct current.

Low-orbiting satellites such as satellites for Palau will move through this location 90 minutes and transfer energy to the rectenna in 5 minutes. This requires long-term battery reserves or energy sources to be used immediately such as charging for electric cars with internal rectenna.

Other studies have focused on geostationary satellites that follow orbit 22,300 miles from Earth. These satellites are fixed in a specific position and can be transferred to regular energy sources.

The size of this scenario is quite ' big ': NASA's study outlined energy collectors of 3x6 miles in size to transfer energy to a rectenna on Earth of similar size. Such a system produced 5 giga-watts, twice the energy produced by the Hoover dam.

Concerns about safety

Patrick Collins of Azabu University in Japan, who participated in Japanese government research on space energy, said low-energy rays may not be more powerful than a microwave's energy source. But energy rays from giant satellites require curfew areas for both aircraft and humans on the ground.

Rising oil prices and an obsession with global warming will make people look at space energy seriously. Mark Hopkins, vice president of the National Space Community in Washington, said: 'Climate change hazards are quite obvious. This source of endless carbon-free energy is what we can get. Everyone just needs to find a way to reduce its production price. '

Supporters argue that the US and other governments should invest in developing spacecraft launchers. The Pentagon's October report concludes 'The method of' drilling up 'against' drilling down 'to find this source of energy should be deployed immediately.'

This appeal is being responded. The European Space Agency has scheduled a space solar seminar on February 29, 2008. Space Island Group, an American space organization, has announced the reaction of the space. pole from Europe and Indian government revolves around buying future energy sources from satellite systems.

For Robert N. Schock, the UN's future energy expert on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the source of space energy is not science fiction.

The Council's 2007 reports do not address the potential of this energy source because Schock's research group timetable does not exceed 2030. But he will not be surprised if this energy source is used on the earth at the beginning of the next century or sooner.