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 will undoubtedly have a significant effect on our energy systems in the future.
Because there is no atmosphere, cloud cover, or night in space, solar panels are able to collect 13 times more energy than they can on Earth.
