Former president of India, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) were actively pursuing research in various technologies to bring down the cost of access to space to make the vision to set up a space-based power plant at an economically viable cost. Inaugurating the six-day ‘Space Festival 2012’ at Bharathiar University (BU) here, Dr Kalam said, “The cost of space-based power plant would be very high given the current technologies, that is, ranging somewhere between $10 billion and $100 billion for an average plant size. To make the plant economically sustainable, the cost must be reduced.”
Source: Deccan Chronicle
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