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"Electric" town in the desert

The Arabian Desert, once one of the most lifeless places on Earth, no longer matches that description: Come 2050, it is home to the world’s first "electric" town. That means all of its infrastructure is powered solely by electrical energy. Driverless electric cars roam the streets of the small town, and all buildings are equipped with automatic climate and lighting control systems, both inside and out. The project was made possible by new technology for harvesting solar energy directly from outer space.

It works as follows: A huge power station equipped with solar batteries is fired into near-Earth orbit. At that altitude, atmosphere and day cycles are no longer in play, which means constant sunlight. The harvested solar energy is transferred from the station to the Earth's surface by a microwave beam transmitted by giant antennas. The microwave beam is aimed at a receiving antenna approximately 5 km (about 3 miles) in diameter, roughly the area of 2,750 soccer fields.

The hefty price tag of putting the station in orbit and post-launch maintenance required every country on the Arabian Peninsula to chip in. In doing so, they demonstrated that such towns can exist without oil and other nonrenewables. Locals are employed mainly in servicing the power station, adjusting its orbit and the direction of the Earth-bound beam.

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Shemsedin Shemes ......THERE ARE MONEY PEOPLE HERE THOSE ARE VERY HUNGRY BUT THE WORLDS BLESSING NATION IN ISLAM THINK ON THIS IDIOT LEXURY THINK / / ENELAHASEYUBTILUH
18 Mar 2024
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Shemsedin Shemes I DO NOT THINK SO I AM FROM AFRICA CONTINENT THERE ARE MONEY
18 Mar 2024
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afil souvenir assalamualaikum
16 Apr 2023
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Chris Beaudin That seems like a lot of work and money; putting up windmills and using batteries would be a lot simpler and cheaper. I also feel like the sand in the atmosphere in this region could affect these microwave signals, which would have devastating effects in a place that depends on electricity to survive in the desert heat.
06 Feb 2022
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DODO GAME OVER I
14 Dec 2021
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Rafif Arkana Putra 🗿🗿🗿🗿
12 Nov 2021
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Mostafa Shaalan lol
09 Oct 2021
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Iman Iranpoormobareke woow im translator
24 Sep 2021
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Yusuf Sani good job
23 Sep 2021
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Riley Brown I can imagine mirrors in space focusing light on a solar farm as well if the microwave beam doesn't work out.
13 Nov 2019
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Hamadah Mohammad Alghamdi Wawo I hope we can get good benefit from future
17 Jan 2023