{"id":115826,"date":"2020-11-13T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T02:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/space-solar-power-station-a-step-closer-thanks-to-government-project"},"modified":"2020-11-13T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T02:22:17","slug":"space-solar-power-station-a-step-closer-thanks-to-government-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/space-solar-power-station-a-step-closer-thanks-to-government-project","title":{"rendered":"Space solar power station a step closer thanks to government project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2018\/08\/31\/6295934521297449485\/1024x576_MP4_6295934521297449485.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Solar power stations in space that beam \u2018emission-free electricity\u2019 down to Earth could soon be a reality thanks to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/uk-government\/index.html\" id=\"mol-6ed3a8d0-25dc-11eb-a0c4-df405d3020dc\">UK government<\/a> funded project.<\/p>\n<p>Above the Earth there are no clouds and no day or night that could obstruct the sun\u2019s ray \u2013 making a space solar station a constant zero carbon power source.<\/p>\n<p>The UK government commissioned new research into the concept of space-based solar power (SBSP) stations as a way to meet the Earth\u2019s growing energy needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar power stations in space that beam \u2018emission-free electricity\u2019 down to Earth could soon be a reality thanks to a UK government funded project. Above the Earth there are no clouds and no day or night that could obstruct the sun\u2019s ray \u2013 making a space solar station a constant zero carbon power source. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1633,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-solar-power","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}