article_snippet: Resource-poor Japan has to import huge amounts of fossil fuel.
article_snippet: Resource-poor Japan has become substantially more dependent on these imports as Resource-poor Japan nuclear power industry shut down in the aftermath of the disaster at Fukushima in 2011.
article_snippet: Energy captured by solar panels would then be sent to the Earth using microwaves and laser lights could be beamed directly to countries where Shimizu Corporation's is needed.
article_snippet: At present, the world's population consumes about 15 terawatts of power each year.
article_snippet: Shimizu Corporation's claims the plans would not only provide an 'almost inexhaustible' energy supply, Shimizu Corporation's would stop the rise of global warming caused by carbon dioxide from current energy sources.