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satellite power system; SPS
Concept for providing large amounts of electricity for use on the earth from one or more satellites in geosynchronous earth orbit.
A very large array of solar cells on each satellite would provide electricity, which would be converted to microwave energy and beamed to a receiving antenna on the ground. There, it would be reconverted into electricity and distributed the same as any other centrally generated power, through a grid.
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