China to build solar power station in space.

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By 2050, researchers at the China Academy of Space Technology who are currently testing the technology and intend to build the station, according to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald. A researcher from the China Academy of Space Technology Corporation, Pang Zhihao, said a space solar power station held the promise of providing "an inexhaustible source of clean energy for humans". The project, which is still in the conceptual stage, would involve a satellite that weighs more than 10,000 lbs., dwarfing anything previously placed into orbit, including the International Space Station, according to the China-based Xinhuanet, part of the Xinhua News Agency.