The world’s biggest solar technology manufacturer will send panels into space as the first step in plans to test the feasibility of harnessing the sun’s power in orbit.
Technology, the world’s biggest solar technology manufacturer, will send panels into space as the first step in plans to test the feasibility of harnessing the sun’s power in orbit and transmitting it back to Earth.
Longi’s decision to establish a laboratory focused on the task could be a first step in the solar sector’s collaboration with China’s space programme and towards off-planet power stations, said Wu Zhijian, president of the China Space Foundation, a government-backed agency under the China National Space Administration.
The prospect of harnessing solar power from space is attracting attention from industry and academics because it promises to remove the technology’s major drawback — that panels don’t operate effectively in darkness — by placing them into orbit with an unrestricted view of the sun.
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