Sunlight fuels hydrogen. While solar panels are common on Australian rooftops, about 75 percent of the country’s energy comes ...

Ali Hajimiri has spent a decade researching how to put solar panels in space and beam the energy down to Earth. Yet when the Caltech electrical engineering professor talks about his work, people ...

The idea of a solar beam that transmits energy from space to Earth was first proposed in 1968 by Peter Glaser, an engineer working with NASA during the Apollo era. At the time, it was considered ...

Groundbreaking solar farms that beam Earth with constant energy from SPACE could power more than a million homes by 2030. The company isn't alone in wanting to take energy production off-Earth.

According to a video published in March by Virtus, a satellite constellation operating in Molniya orbit, or a highly elliptical orbit, will beam the solar power to Earth. The companies will launch ...

If this concept comes to fruition, by sometime in the 2030s Solaris could begin providing always-on space-based solar power. Eventually, it could make up 10 to 15 percent of Europe’s energy use ...

Ali Hajimiri has spent a decade researching how to put solar panels in space and beam the energy down to Earth. Yet when the Caltech electrical engineering professor talks about his work, people ...