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Japan plans space-based solar power

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Treehugger suggests the Japan Space Agency say the power will be beamed back to earth by “solar stream” rather than the ominous-sounding if more accurate phrase, “laser beam.”

Of course, no military on the planet would ever dream of having solar-powered laser beams from space turn opponents on earth into crispy critters.

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