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‘Change typhoon intensity and path’: China team mulls hitting cyclones with space beam (www.scmp.com)

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China should accelerate development of a space-based solar power station, as the technology could one day do far more than beam clean energy to Earth, it might even help tame typhoons, according to a senior Chinese engineer. Duan Baoyan, the lead scientist behind the ambitious “Zhuri” project – which aims to hold a megawatt-class demonstration in the Earth’s orbit by 2030 – said microwave beams generated by such a station to transmit electricity back to Earth could potentially be directed to...

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[–] NaibofTabr 1 points 1 month ago

Chinese space ~~lasers~~ masers