By Alexander Haislip
SAN FRANCISCO (Private Equity Week) - Solar panels in space. It sounds more like science fiction than a business, but one early stage company has raised money from investors to launch solar panels into space and use high-powered radio waves to beam back energy to earth...
Because space solar arrays are not affected by cloud cover and other atmosphere impurities and can be positioned in a high orbit to receive the sun's light 24 hours a day, the technology is considered eight to 10 times more efficient than terrestrial solar arrays, according to PG&E.
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