7.4 Power Systems for Demonstrations As discussed in previous sections, the state of art power collection and beaming technology is quite inefficient and heavy. Therefore, better systems must be developed for cost justification and enviromental compatability. To achieve this goal, technologies for solar energy collection, energy beaming and receiving must be developed efficiently and systematically. To approach this goal some intermediate steps using a short term demostration are discussed in Chapter 10. Once these steps are complete, a demonstration of the entire power system can be built as presented in Figure 7.41. These system demonstrations can then be used to generate more sophisticated power plants in space as presented in Figure 7.42. Figure 7.41 Schedule Tasks for Power Systems - Demo 3 Figure 7.42 Power System Tasks For Large Scale Demo
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