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Beaming 24/7 solar… from space

Catalyst with Shayle Kann

CHAPTER

The Science of Power Bearing

Power beaming is not something we deal with really in our everyday life. It's been a thing since the time Nikolai Tesla over a hundred years ago thought about how power could be sent wirelessly and imagined having huge towers that could send power around the world. So what we now need to get to is to beam this power in a similar configuration to how we would be doing it from space to the earth. And people are starting to commercialize that for terrestrial applications already because there is value in being able to send some megawatts of power across kilometer distance.

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