One of China’s mega-metropolises has a unique plan for saving on the electricity costs of maintaining street lamps at night: by launching “artificial moons” into space.
State media recently reported that a research organization in the southwestern city of Chengdu City in Sichuan Province, called Tian Fu New Area Science Society, has developed a kind of space satellite with a reflective coating that can deflect sunlight back to Earth, similar to how the moon shines, according to an Oct. 19 report by China Daily, China’s state-run English-language newspaper.
