Solar Power Satellites

The new world is demanding more and more renewable energy sources. The rapid increase in population led to many global issues like global warming, green house effect, pollution, depletion of fuel resources etc. The demand of electric energy is also increasing in a fast phase due to industrialization and the new luxury life style of people. This situation is forcing us to find a new source of energy but we are not able to find a new source. Electrical and electronics engineers proposed many solutions but none of them was effective. The only remedy left is to use the solar energy more efficiently. The climatic conditions prevailing on earth does not allow us to get an efficiency of not more than 18% for our solar panels. So how we could solve this problem? This led to the possibility of building a solar power station in space. The solar power station will convert the solar energy from sun to electrical energy and will transmit as radio waves to earth by mean of solar power satellites. This solar power satellite sends the microwaves as a beam to the receiving antenna on earth surface where it is converted into ordinary electricity. The design engineering plays a leading role in the construction of solar power satellite.