Space Solar, based in Oxfordshire, intends to use a mile-wide system of mirrors and solar panels orbiting 22,000 miles above Earth to power more than a million homes by the 2030s.
At Queen’s University Belfast, a wireless beam was successfully “steered” across a lab to turn on a light, marking the first instance of that working.
The company’s founder, Martin Soltau, stated in an exclusive interview with News that “this is a world first.” You have access to continuous energy at all times.
“This is really going to have a substantial impact on our future energy systems.”
Solar panels in space harvest 13 times more energy than on Earth.
