China Wants a Massive Solar-Powered Space Laser

Chinese researchers are proposing a trillion-dollar solar space-based power station, which will beam its electricity to a collector on Earth using microwaves or lasers, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported on March 30. While billed as a power station, analysts believe this station is in fact meant to be a space weapon.

The proposed space power station, which Xinhua describes as “a super spacecraft on a geosynchronous orbit equipped with huge solar panels,” would be around twice the size of New York’s Central Park.

“If realized, it will surpass the scale of the Apollo project and the International Space Station, and be the largest-ever space project,” Xinhua states.

While the technology may sound a bit far-out, the Chinese regime activated and began funding the program in 2010, according to a report from the China Academy of Space Technology.

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