BREAKING: China’s Space Solar Power Station—An Orbital Feat, Fueled by Silver SavvyChina’s audacious orbital energy station showcases….

Silver Academy ^ | 6 Oct 25 | Silver Academy

[delta7]

China’s audacious orbital energy station showcases high-tech ambition—powered by sun and silver—positioning the nation as a leader in the next era of global energy innovation.

China isn’t just aiming for the stars—it’s building them. The country’s bold leap into the future comes in the form of a one-kilometer-wide solar power station, launched into geostationary orbit 36,000 kilometers above the Earth. This is not some sci-fi proposal, but an ambitious, state-led drive epitomizing China’s technological swagger and strategic focus.

Daylight Never Stops: Power From the Void

Picture a solar array so massive and advanced, it basks in the sun’s full intensity 24 hours a day, above clouds, storms, and night. This mile-high marvel collects and beams solar power as undiluted microwaves to receivers on Earth—making energy blackouts or weather interruptions relics of the past. For China, this is the logical next step in national ingenuity: harnessing infinite daylight, from the silence of orbit.

Engineering Roars—But It’s Silver That Sings

What really powers this leap? Silver—the world’s elemental conductor—forms the backbone of every solar cell, wire, and high-efficiency circuit packed into this orbital behemoth. Using the industry metric of 700,000 ounces of silver per gigawatt of solar capacity, estimates for this single space station run from about 150,000 ounces (at basic delivered capacity) to over 1,000,000 ounces for a state-of-the-art, maximum-output installation. Realistically, the project’s current specifications point to nearly 300,000 ounces of silver just for the solar hardware—a demand echoing across global silver markets

China Sets the Pace, the World Watches

Unlike Earth’s fragmented energy sectors, China’s state-driven coordination cuts through barriers, accelerating the move from lab prototypes to cosmic-scale reality. While other nations debate and pilot, Beijing welds, launches, and delivers—increasing its stake in the future of energy, and in the complex logistics of industrial metals like silver.

The Silver Age of Energy

This isn’t about replacing oil overnight—the global economy still leans heavily on hydrocarbons. But as a display of technical prowess, policy cohesion, and resource strategy, China’s move is drawing a new map of energy and metals demand. As the world watches, a new era of solar power—one literally built on silver—rises in Earth’s orbit.

China’s orbital gamble proves that tomorrow’s energy superpowers won’t just own oilfields and reactors—they’ll command sunlight, silicon, and metals like silver, at a planetary scale. The future is bright, and its backbone just might be 36,000 kilometers above our heads.

[delta7]

As the Greenies struggle with wind and solar power, Xi takes it to the source.

[Frank Drebin]

This is—beyond all human imagination—the best pro China AI article I’ve seen written throughout the span of the history of human writing—from the cave paintings in the Lascaux cave in France to the latest blog entry by Earl Shoemocker on why Texas BBQ is better than any food on Earth—and definitely within the last couple of hours.

[Abathar]

"This mile-high marvel collects and beams solar power as undiluted microwaves to receivers on Earth"

Real estate will be a bargain next to those receivers when the cancer rates start coming out after a few years of use...

[Vermont Lt]

And if the transmission down to earth is off by 1/2 a degree...you get fried dumplings.

But, I own a bunch of silver. If these guys want to shoot tons of it into space, who am I to argue?

[ASOC]

What do you call a orbiting solar-powered , terawatt power, microwave transmitter?

A space based weapons system?

An EMP machine parked overhead?

I’ll believe it when it produces usual power.

The Japanese have spent real coin on this and will launch a demo this year. I suspect Chinese spies have all the data and are waiting for Japan to test/prove their tech before stealing that as weel....

See https://www.jspacesystems.or.jp/en/project/observation/ssps/

https://ratedpower.com/blog/japan-solar-power-from-space/

[Salgak]

Home, home on LaGrange. . .
Where the space debris always collects. ..
We possess, so it seems, two of man’s greatest dreams...

. . . Solar power, and zero-gee sex ! ;)

[NorthMountain]

And this, buoys and gulls, is why it’s important to study science ...

It helps you avoid being bullshitted.

Knowledge is power.

[delta7]

Microwave energy transmission is not the only discussed method, laser energy is an alternative which the Chinese mentioned but are mum about ( military applications).

Fact is China will not divulge any information, ( state secret) , which will lead to much speculation. We shall see.

[Old West Conservative]

I know that ... now....

[butlerweave]

Smells like a failure and a ton more space junk

[Democrat = party of treason]

What a load of bs

[delta7]

But, I own a bunch of silver. If these guys want to shoot tons of it into space, who am I to argue?
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Good to see someone watching. Silver is now outperforming Gold…..maybe we should modify Trumps statement, “ Those who own the Gold,( Silver) make the rules”….China holds the largest Silver reserves on the planet….and is the world’s largest producer.

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[noiseman]

This is ludicrous. The “article” claims that this fantasy orbiting power station would be “…capable of generating more energy in one year than all the oil on Earth.” That’s just stupid, since their equally fictional chart of potential output, at max, claims an output of 1.5 megawatts, about the same as a single Earth-bound nuclear reactor, or a single large gas or coal power plant. And that claimed output is over the top fantasy, since such a satellite would still have to use the same solar panel tech we have today, and no ground-based solar power plant of similar size can produce anywhere near those numbers, even if it had 24-hour sunlight. This concept has been around since the “energy crisis” days of the 1970s, and there are multiple reasons one has never been built.

This appears to be childishly-written, poorly conceived CCP propaganda, as well as fodder for some kind of site pimping silver investment (though weirdly, I don’t see a mechanism in the article for follow-up).

As an aside, when I was in elementary school in the early 70s, I read a novel called “Flameout” that was about the investigation of a commercial airliner crash. The investigators eventually figure out that the jet had accidentally flown through the microwave beam of an orbiting solar power station, frying all of its electronics. It was pretty good (at least from what I remember now).

[noiseman]

I meant to say 1.5 gigawatts above.

[deport]

Real estate will be a bargain next to those receivers
when the cancer rates start coming out

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Gotta control the Earth population via some methods be it
wars, medical, etc. at some point in the future.

[Battlestar]

Its all imagination, typical CCP propaganda. They haven’t actually done it and probably never will. China’s engineers basically read through 1950s SCIENCE magazines and recycle the old ideas using AI graphics and video. They make it look real, tangible, and actually already deployed. But its not. Its just their imagination, borrowed from our grandfathers.

[Red Badger]

A target..................

[Retain Mike]

I have never seen, even from skeptics, a computation of the life cycle costs for things like wind, solar, or this.

[PJ-Comix]

This has already been done over 20 years ago with the Icarus satellite as seen in James Bond’s “Die Another Day.”

[NorthMountain]

The Ivanpah solar thermal generating station is shutting down 13 years ahead of schedule, because it doesn't deliver according to expectations. Not even close.

Solar and wind are great for remote off-grid power needs. That is all.