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"If you happened to be looking at the sky in Europe on a cold night on February
5 1993, there is a chance you could have seen a dim flash of light. That flash
came from a Russian space mirror experiment called Znamya-2.
Znamya-2 was a 20-metre reflective structure much like aluminium foil (Znamya
means “banner” in Russian), unfurled from a spacecraft which had just undocked
from the Russian Mir space station. Its goal was to demonstrate solar energy
could be reflected from space to Earth.
This was the first and only time that a mirror had ever been launched into
space for that purpose. But, three decades on, colleagues and I believe it’s
time to revisit this technology.
Unlike proposals to build solar power stations in space and transmit energy
down to earth, all the generation would still happen down here. Crucially,
these reflectors could help solar farms generate electricity even when direct
sunlight is not available, especially during evening and early morning hours
when demand for clean energy is greatest. Colleagues and I call this concept
“orbiting solar reflectors”."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
