Solar farms in space could help solve global energy crisis following tech breakthrough, Irish scientists predict

📆 16/05/2024 00:09:00
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QUB team successfully deploy technology on satellites that can constantly turn to face the sun and send power back to Earth in form of microwave energy

A prototype, developed with UK company Space Solar Ltd, has been successfully demonstrated in a world-first at Queen’s Centre for Wireless Innovation

A prototype, developed with UK company Space Solar Ltd, has been successfully demonstrated in a world-first at Queen’s Centre for Wireless Innovation . Space Solar estimates each satellite, with an antenna measuring 2km in diameter, could provide 2 gigawatts of continuous power – enough to power one million homes on Earth.

Space Solar’s power satellite design, known as CASSIOPEIA, provides a uniquely capable solution “with a solid state power-beaming architecture, with ability to steer the beam through 360 degrees”. “Within half an hour of being switched on, it was working. We were pretty elated,” he said. “The technology will undoubtedly require a high, initial investment. Sending rockets into space is obviously pretty expensive although the price has come down significantly in the past decade.

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