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UFOs - What do we know?

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The Proposal of Solar Panels in Space

By 2050, systems like this could be yielding up to 10 GW. That's the equivalent of 16 Hinckley Point C nuclear power stations. The advantage there is that there's no day or night, so they can generate all the time. And then the electricity is converted into something called microwaves - which are picked up by a large area of special antennae on Earth.

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