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A giant leap toward space-based solar power

May. 17, 2009
Pacific Gas & Electric has signed a contract to buy power from an ambitious start-up that plans to launch solar power collectors into orbit to back energy as radio waves. Pie in the sky? Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for decades has generated power for its customers by splitting atoms,...
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