Solar+Wind+Satellite+Could+Potentially+Power+Entire+Planet

> A satellite with a 1,000-meter (3,280-foot) cable and a sail 8,400 kilometers (5,220 miles) across, placed at roughly the same orbit, would generate one billion billion gigawatts of power. > That's approximately 100 billion times the power Earth currently uses
 * Solar and wind power have been the 2 front runners to be the new next big renewable energy resource.
 * A solar sail (5,220 miles wide) would get the power in the solar wind
 * Using this concept they hope to generate 1 billion billion gigawatts of power back to earth
 * IF THEY COULD GET THE POWER BACK TO EARTH (IT WOULD BE JUST FINE)
 * Problems: Solar wind isn't like wind back on earth and the satellite wouldn't generate electricity like a windmill
 * The proposed satellite would use a charged copper wire to grab electrons from the sun
 * The main problem would be getting the power and electricity back to earth from the satellite without losing all of the power that it just gained
 * Quotes: According to the team's calculations, 300 meters (984 feet) of copper wire, attached to a two-meter-wide (6.6-foot-wide) receiver and a 10-meter (32.8-foot) sail, would generate enough power for 1,000 homes.