Space-based solar power: The next frontier for clean energy?

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Space Solar is aiming to generate gigawatt scale electricity from space from the early 2030s - BusinessGreen spoke to co-CEO Martin Soltau about his firm's sci-fi style vision

It's the stuff of science fiction - quite literally. The premise of a space station generating solar power and beaming it back to Earth via microwaves would no doubt have seemed far-fetched when it was...

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