Is it possible to directly covert solar energy to laser in space and transmit to earth to generate electricity
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Yes, but it would be expensive to build the equipment and incredibly dangerous - imagine if the laser was hit by a small bit of space debris and the laser light moved - it would be like dropping a fire-bomb.
Far better to harvest the natural sunlight when it reaches the earth!
No.
But the hard thing is turning light into electricity - getting the light here is easy (no need for a laser), the sun is doing it just fine all the time.
Yes, but the economics of it have to be worked out. Hauling tonnes of equipment into space ain't cheap!
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