You Are My Sunshine
Solar Panels in Outer Space

Take that, Solyndra: A Japanese firm plans to generate solar power using panels on satellites in geosynchronous orbit.

You Are My Sunshine
A Lunar Solar Farm

A Japanese company thought way, way beyond the box with this idea: putting a ring of solar panels around the moon’s equator and beaming that energy back down to earth. This idea is much more fiction than it is science, but dreams like this one may be achieved sooner than we might expect.

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