Praise the sun since it might provide all of the energy we require. Researchers are currently striving to gather solar energy from space and beam it back to Earth using microwaves, but this may not be possible until at least 2035.
According to Martin Soltau, co-chairman of the Space Energy Initiative (SEI), the initiative, which is a partnership between business and academia, is quite likely.
The Cassiopeia project intends to make use of a constellation of enormous satellites in a high Earth orbit. These satellites would collect solar energy and return it to Earth.
Soltau asserts that this has an almost limitless potential and may provide all of the energy needed for the planet. He claims:
“There’s sufficient room in orbit for the solar power satellites, and the Sun’s supply of energy is vast. A narrow strip around geostationary Earth orbit receives more than 100 times the amount of energy per year than all of humanity is forecast to use in 2050.”
Once research determined that such a solution is feasible, the UK government launched a £3 million funding round for space-based solar power (SBSP) projects. SEI hopes to secure a sizeable chunk of this investment.
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