Astrium Eyes Using Lasers To Down Beam Solar Energy
Credit: EADS ASTRIUM
EADS Astrium engineers are working on an orbital solar power concept that they think will be competitive with other technologies but safer to use. Solar power would be collected in space and beamed to Earth using high-power infrared lasers so the energy could be used in remote regions, areas hit by...
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