The cable would connect with some point on Earth located at the equator, and would allow mass to be transferred to orbit using electricity instead of rocket fuel.

该电缆将连接一些位于地球赤道上的点，这将允许群众被运送到到轨道使用电来代替火箭燃料。

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The power would be converted to electricity on-board the spacecraft and sent to wherever it is needed on Earth by a large microwave-transmitting antenna or by lasers, then fed into a power grid.

太阳能将被转化为航天器内部的电力，并通过微波发射天线或激光输送入电力网，然后再供给地球上任何需要电力的地区。

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Nick Rau, energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth, agreed. 'We could easily supply our electricity demand from offshore, even with other demands on sea such as shipping, fishing and defence radar.

而地球之友组织能源推广代表尼克·劳也表示赞同，说：“我们很容易利用近海能源或者其他海域能源为航运、渔业、岸防雷达等提供电力支持”。

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The astronauts were three hundred twenty thousand kilometers from Earth with little oxygen, electricity and water.

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So it is funding research into getting microorganisms to extract energy from things like metal ions abundant in the earth or solar electricity.

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Today, one-and-a-half billion people on earth have no access to electricity at all, and a billion more have limited access.

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That's a little more electricity than an average household on Earth uses continuously when averaged over time.

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