$100M Gift from Irvine Co.’s Bren Powers Caltech Space Electricity Idea

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August 2, 2021

Orange County’s billionaire real estate developer Donald Bren has donated at least $100 million to a Caltech project that aims to generate solar power in space and beam it back to earth.

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