2023-06-06 14:25:02
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in transmitting electricity from solar panels located in space to Earth. A first which is not yet very convincing, but which already opens up a whole range of possibilities.
In theory, space is the best place to place solar panels. In the absence of cloud, day-night cycle and refraction of light, the light coverage is optimal. But there remains a major concern: transporting the electricity thus produced to planet Earth. A feat that until now remained impossible.
But that just changed. A team from the California University of Technology has just managed to achieve the improbable, by transforming the electricity collected in space into microwaves that can be recovered and retransformed once on Earth. The yield is unfortunately still quite low, but subject to improvement.
The first applications might, for example, be to help disaster areas that have been cut off from electricity. But perhaps in the more distant future, it will not be impossible to delegate a good part of our terrestrial electricity production to these space solar panels, with a yield never seen before.
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