Groundbreaking research transmits energy from space to Earth
Vložit
- čas přidán 7. 07. 2023
- Earlier this year, scientists completed the first transmission of energy from space to earth, potentially revolutionizing carbon-free energy. The scientists behind the incredible achievement explain the process. Jeff Glor reports.
"CBS Saturday Morning" co-hosts Jeff Glor, Michelle Miller and Dana Jacobson deliver two hours of original reporting and breaking news, as well as profiles of leading figures in culture and the arts. Watch "CBS Saturday Morning" at 7 a.m. ET on CBS and 8 a.m. ET on the CBS News app.
Subscribe to "CBS Mornings" on CZcams: / cbsmornings
Watch CBS News live: cbsn.ws/1PlLpZ7c
Download the CBS News app: cbsn.ws/1Xb1WC8
Follow "CBS Mornings" on Instagram: bit.ly/3A13OqA
Like "CBS Mornings" on Facebook: bit.ly/3tpOx00
Follow "CBS Mornings" on Twitter: bit.ly/38QQp8B
Subscribe to our newsletter: cbsn.ws/1RqHw7T
Try Paramount+ free: bit.ly/2OiW1kZ
For video licensing inquiries, contact: licensing@veritone.com
Just remember, this man is not suicidal.
Now we are one step closer to a Dyson Sphere and one step closer into being a type 1 civilization
Taking a few steps at a time between this and AI infrastructure tbh . Love to see it
My dyson sphere broke after just 3 months, and unfortunately I was out of the return period at target. So if you need one I have one handy, doesn't work great though.
@@TheGreyLineMatters a step is still a step.
We will have to develop new materials and material synthesis methods. Then mine the asteroid fields for rare earth minerals.
This will take generations but it is what we will need to even begin truly exploring and colonization of the local galaxy.
sci-fitards never learn critical thinking.. a dyson sphere is physically impossible.
Not a single number provided in the interview. So, impossible to understand how efficient/feasible it is.
Thank You, I came here to say the same thing after seeing this irritating video on my TV CZcams where I can't make comments.
Efficiency doesn't matter Because the energy source is unlimited (sun)
Even if it's 5% Efficient it's still free energy
The part that actually scares me is that it can be directed anywhere the person with the joystick wants. Not saying it’s necessarily a bad idea, but it does bring to mind countless Bond villains destroying their targets with beams from space.
The journey of a lifetime begins with a single step. I wish these scientists and engineers success. They have a very difficult task ahead of them. Making the technology scalable to make a difference is one huge task.
Thanks captain, they needed your input.
Yea and maybe poke the biggest hole in the atmosphere. And fry some birds as usual.
They should focus on solving real world (down here) problems. The world will be going to the toilet soon.
@@evielknievel4972 There's already a job for every problem you can think of. If you don't like the way something is being done there's nothing stopping you from pursuing it.
We need scientology more than ever now
Harnessing the sun's energy in such a way is the beginning of an advance civilization, on a cosmic level! big stuff happening here, if it works.
Why go through so much work to do this when we have a huge area called the Sierra desert?
It is a massive area that has almost no cloud cover and receives more sunlight than any other place on earth.
What I suggest is set up focus light energy generation plants along the coast of the Sierra desert that takes sea water and boils it to create steam, that steam turns turbines that make energy, the steam is then cooled by putting it into a distillery and turned into fresh water that then can be split into Hydrogen by the power produced by the turbines.
The Hydrogen then can be shipped in containers containing Hydride by Hydrogen powered ships to anywhere on earth and be used to run vehicles and heat homes.
This would create endless clean Hydrogen from the sun the advantage with this system is just like any fuel it can be stockpiled in abundance and used when ever it is needed unlike solar energy that is hard to store for a long period of time.
Perhaps some of the weirder anomalies we are seeing around other stars (the transit light dipping) is because extraterrestrial civilizations have already mastered this? who knows - i guess we will know soon enough.
@@urgreatestenemy3044 ignoring everything else, solar power doesn't necessarily mean it's better. The cells lose efficiency when they get too hot and it lowers the lifespan of the cells. Places that get a lot of sun and more mild temps are much better
@@mulattofy You are thinking of solar panel power plants I'm talking about the mirror type power plants that focus light on one point and heats sea water to create steam that then turns turbines.
@@scroopynooperz9051 interesting theory, ya never know out there... whole stars being utilised to benefit an advanced race
Interesting that they credit the wireless transmission of power as an Isaac Asimov thing and not a Nikola Tesla thing since he was not just writing, he was actually working on it long before.
Now if only we could transmit genuine meaning to our lives.
Then we wouldn't need to use so much energy and the problem would be solved without a giant death ray from space.
That you have to create for yourself.
This was a power plant option in Sim City 2000.
There's nothing new under the sun 🌞
That just tells me that even though this is newly released technology, it’s already over 20 years old in development. Someone must have thought about it in order for it to make it in that game all those years ago.
@@desmondstanley4372dude, people thought about this idea simce the 60's. Science already knows how to fix lots of stuff, the problem is funding. We can end hunger and poverty right now, but there's no will to do that.
Exactly what I thought! Microwave energy.
Isn‘t this kinda what Nikola Tesla had in mind? This is tremendous. Incredible and also within our grasp!
Within our grasp? NTHU (Near Term Human Extinction) is upon us. CO² is around 500ppm, when you take into account methane and nitrous oxide. 100-200 species are going extinct each day and this has been going on for years. This is MSM peddling hopium, because the truth is too hard for them to pass along to people. So sad...
Kinda. His transmitters of longitudinal vibrating electric field were on the ground not in space.
@@car9167 And extremely impractical because of the inefficiencies.
@@menotyou8369 That I'm not sure since nobody built and measure one today. This is not regular transverse electromagnetic wave but a pulsed on direction of propagation electric field. The magnetic component is ignored. Unless you know somebody tried and measured... please post a link if you have one
It’s what Nikola was already doing and the government killed and took his work and classified it, now they are just taking credit for his work
As an Iranian, I am really proud of this brilliant Iranian genius I mean Prof. Hajimiri for such a great innovation in the energy sector!
What an incredible achievement!. Now if only we could transmit genuine meaning to our lives..
Der Sinn des Lebens liegt nicht im Aussen, er ist in Dir drinnen. Deine eigene spirituelle Entwicklung ist das allerwichtigste in dieser Inkarnation. Das andere ist eine 2. Geschichte zu der man bestimmt sein kann, es ist die Lebensaufgabe die auf Deine Erfahrungen während der spirituellen Entwicklung, basiert...hat nichts mit Kirche oder Religion zu tun...
Life is what YOU make of it.
For those wondering, the Isaac Asimov short story referred to in the beginning of this video is _Reason,_ published in 1941.
Asimov's character was a robot living on (essentially) a solar power harvesting plant. He was visualizing this even before the end of WWII!
Lol we have Google too
@@coronalight77 no, Buddy, you have google, we have Bing A.I
@@crazycutz8072 A fight! A fight! A Bard and a Bing! lol
I don’t think anyone was wondering… you just wanted to share that you knew something. 😂
@@georgelopez4193 Actually, _I_ was wondering. So, I went and looked it up. I figured if I was wondering, someone else might be wondering, too. Therefore, I wanted to share what I had just learned.
Cynical much?
More positive stories for humanity like this !! Lets go CAL Tech/USA !!
MSM still peddling hopium to the masses, even in the face of biosphere collapse and NTHU (Near Term Human Extinction)... 👍🏻😭
This is a scam. No telecommunication authority would approve this as it is dangerous to people. It's noninising radiation, but at high level it literally cooks you alive, we are talking about 1k-100k more power than a mobile cell tower.
Imagine "free energy" .
Politicians would do anything to stop it or tax it so you can't even afford it.
I’m not a scientist. To much math and all that other stuff. but when it’s simplified down to my average brain this stuff sounds pretty cool in the resources we can achieve
These are the real hero’s. Not some influencer on social media or sports star.
Great story. I'm a physicist nerd myself and it's so exciting to see these advances coming.
Yeah, what joy. I can see more trash like Bluewalker 3. Yippee!
I wouldn't really call this much of an advance. This technology has been around for ages. Just no one has bothered to attempt a space based microwave energy transmission. Granted, new ideas and technology has made the technology more efficient. Efficient enough that transmitting it from space may be viable.
Are you a trained/educated physicist?
@@fredr3101 You bet. I teach it at a college in Az. Why do you ask?
@@resresres1 The concept is not new but just getting it to be feasible is.
I'm not a conspiracy person at all, but I think it's worth keeping in mind that technology that allows super high powered beams of energy to be "transmitted" across large distances has "other implications". While this specific implementation may utilize non-ionizing wavelengths, I can't imagine it'd be difficult to change that. Either way, very cool technology and my hats off to these researchers.
The military will want to turn it into a nation melting weapon
They are directing microwaves over long distances. Darpa has this tech already and has weaponized it. Nothing new here.
Death star
Jewish space lasers have left the chat.
Dr. Evil agrees, and would like to see your resume. 😅
Waiting for the "Scientist found dead in apartment" headlines
This was a power plant option in Sim City 2000.. It's like the one form of energy that is truly renewable..
It also came with its own disaster scenario for when the beam misses its target.
I came to the comments to see if anyone else made this connection 😂 Little scary how similarly its described.
😢We have way too many Thomas Edisons in our lifetime to see its full potential 😢
Good point. Gotta protect this Nikolai Tesla kind of tech from Edison-like thieves and scoundrels.
@@linux750 What you just said, jon, was profound. So profound as to inspire a fundamental world-changing awareness injection into the human collective consciousness. That aspect of our phenotype is now in a state of rapid evolution. Not for the first time, our tool use has driven our development. That tool, of course, is the one we use to communicate with, which is a set of tools working constantly as one big tool. Speaking of tools, you have identified an archetype that could be used to construct an iconoclastic defense against the meme of profiting, vampiring of individual human intellect. The opening statement of a future court case: My Client was Edisonized by Mr.(Bates, Jobs, Musk, Bezos, whoever). Or this opening statement in a supreme court case: If these corporations are allowed to edisonize this humanity-changing discovery,
it will result in the permanent enslavement of the majority of humanity by that minority of society, thus the emergence of new species of humans that exclusively prey upon other humans. Thus H G Wells has manifested his prediction for the future in his novel: The Time Machine.
@@oo2free “The human spirit must prevail over technology.” - A. Einstein
Open source is the only safe way, sadly the inventor doesn't get paid that way.
Tesla
Incredibly exciting I was moved by the scientist's speech at the beginning of the article.
how did you get these big emojis lol
so... my big question is this:
If energy can neither be created, nor destroyed, but merely transformed. What long term cost is beaming energy DIRECTLY to the earth going to have? You felt the heat by merely walking near one of the small devices, imagine one that's much much larger, and the area it will be splashing with microwaves would be much larger. How do we contend with that? There's a lot going on here, beyond the energy delivery.
Gerard K. O'Neill talked about this in the 1970s and 80s. Read his book: The Space Studies Institute, founded on his ideas, is still working on the idea.
Yes, I read his book many years ago. However, I've since seen a lecture about Thorium reactors where the speaker pointed out that even if you could get the material in orbit at no cost it still wouldn't be profitable in comparison to other energy sources. Also, I'm just a little uncomfortable despite protestations to the contrary, about the effects of microwaving the atmosphere and its effects on water vapour and hence climate. As to powering aeroplanes with microwaves, TV reporters shouldn't think out loud.
@@harryflashman3141 Well, I wouldn't trust a thorium-reactor dude for a walk around the corner.
Neither do I trust these dudes, but it sonds more plausible.
Micorwaves can be emmitted in wavelenghts that do not interfere with anything, otherwise we would be already fried as these are widely used for telecoms.
O'Neill envisaged space solar as the primary industrial reason for settling cislunar space. Providing jobs that help Earth with unlimited carbon-neutral energy while humanity expands ever further into the solar system for jobs, manufacturing, and scientific knowledge.
Would be nice if they did a more critical deep dive instead of this fluff piece to really examine the physics, economics, etc. It's an interesting idea, but they side-stepped the question of safety. Also, do they envision sending a constant stream of energy down to some energy storage/conversion facility or would you periodically recharge these facilities, which would basically be giant batteries? Would the same space solar farm be able to recharge multiple facilities at different latitudes/longitudes? Maybe the most basic question, is it even worth it? These have to be launched into (geostationary?) orbit, which is costly; What are the energy capture/transmission efficiencies? What are the lifetimes of these solar cells in space? Being in space is a double-edged sword as there is more and more constant energy from the sun, but you are also not protected from a lot of ionizing and high energy radiation that can degrade electronics. Not saying this couldn't make sense, but it would be better for everyone to demand a little more from these types of "breakthroughs" instead of hearing clean energy and cheering reflexively.
CME will fry the whole constellation.
When he killed the power to the drone for the second time - I just saw the engineer's heart sink. "Ooo Oooo Ooooo.....can we power an object moving and 700mph" - What a muppet.
And even if those frequencies are not ionizing, if water still absorbs some of that energy could it raise temperatures in areas with a lot of water vapor?
More studies should be conducted.
DARPA has proved pumping energy into the atmosphere can have surprising effects.
The only way it works is to put the system in geosynchronous orbit so that it doesn't wander away from the ground-based station aimpoint. The amount of energy required to do that per kilogram of solar panel would exceed the amount of energy it could convert over a 50 year lifetime. So the whole thing is just a greenwash boondoogle. It might be useful for military applications (powering comms or EW surrepititiously), but it's NOT at all "green".
You’re the guy that should stay as far away from these kinds of research projects as possible
Wow, what an amazing concept 🙌 god bless
Very interesting. I wonder how does this transmission of energy actually work? Would the weather and cloud block this beam of energy? How much power does it actually give? What’s the radius of this beam? Can this radius be controlled? How much energy does it take to maintain these modules? Will they be able to send energy at the night side of Earth? So many questions but the subject is interesting nonetheless.
Uses microwaves like a microwave oven to wirelessly transmit power
Congrats, I watched a ted talk presented by ali about his wireless energy technology which was super fascinating, im happy to see that he achieved the vision he was going for, this is amazing!
would this be the first step in building a dyson sphere?
I remember 45 years ago speaking to an engineer on this very subject. He said at the time the idea of sending powerful microwave beam down to the planet and doing damage to people by accident was of more concern than getting the energy.
I speak many things out in the wrong way. This energy will be trapped here anyway if it comes in. And the only way to negate it would be to make Earth lose energy. The only way that I know of, how Earth can lose energy, would be when there is very little co2 in the atmosphere (and other particles as well) so that sunrays can travel out into space. So that Earth can reflect the red light. You see what I mean? The only way to bring this energy out is to make Earth reflect red light XD which they bombard Earth with, for those machines to work in the first place. It's a dead end
Once again humanity invents powerful machines, like the combustion engine, without a single thought about the consequences. Simply to invent something at all. Something invented is better than nothing, right? Right?
@neverrl3379 the energy unused could be beamed back up and out of atmosphere. But I understand what you're getting at.
But they're non ionizing energy! Ohhhhh splitttt....non ionizing lol
Fax. Notice the interview didn’t further Inquire about the heat. And how are they gonna make beam stronger w/out harm. 😑
@@neverrl3379as long as shareholders get ROI they don’t care about consequences.
The problem with solar panels replacing all our current power infastructure isn't that "it only happens during the day" the problem is the rare-earth minerals and metals required. The amount of time it would take to mine everything required is literally THOUSANDS of years. I would put a source here but I can't put links or pictures on YT comments.
This reminds me of the microwave power plant in SimCity 2000. Clearly the idea has existed since a long time, it's nice to see it finally being born
It's funny because I remember imagining and drawing pictures about getting energy from space as a kid.. I didn't even know why I just remembered learning about solar panels and then started making pictures of satellites with long extension cords lol.
Awesome!!
That’s incredible hope to see it soon
This is a childhood dream come true for many science and engineering professionals and aficionados.
Amazing breakthrough. I've always hoped there would be a way to use the suns energy on large scale and easy. Since the sun is always there producing it and you basically have an unlimited energy supply until the sun dies, but then we're all dead and probably long before that
Micro meteors will destroy these.
yeah exactly, its almost like we already are!
hows is that a breakthrough, look at their publication, this is garbage
@@cstuartdcsure buddy
What’s your qualifications to speak on this topic !??
They talked about solar collection in space, but what about the transmitter? How big is that, and how much heat does it produce at receivers on the ground?
It's huge and very costly.
“Can you just turn the power off, and turn the power on…”.
Timeless instructions for every tech problem ever.
I wish these scientists and engineers success.
If battery technology continues to improve, this could fly over-head and charge batteries which could last for the rest of the day and night, until it came back around to recharge the batteries once again. It may take decades to break even, but after that, the amount of money to be made here is potentially astounding.
'BATTERYLESS BATTERIES': (copy and paste from my files):
To help power equipment in outer space:
Potential endless energy source basically anywhere in this universe:
a. Small aluminum cones with an electrical wire running through the center of the cones, cones spaced apart (not touching I'm thinking) but end to end.
b. Electromagentic radiation energy in the atmosphere interacts with the aluminum cones.
c. Jostled atoms and molecules in the cone eventually have some electrons try to get away from other electrons of which those electrons gather at the larger end of the cone, of which also creates an area of positive charge at the smaller end of the cone.
d. The electron's in the wire are attracted to the positive end of the cone and the positive 'end' in the wire are attracted to the negatively charged end of the cone.
e. Basically a 'battery' has been created inside the electrical wire itself, different areas of electrical potential. Basically a 'wire battery' or a 'batteryless battery', however one wanted to call it.
f. Numerous cones placed end to end increases the number of 'batteries' in the wire.
(In series to increase voltage, in parallel to increase amperage).
* Via QED (Quantum Electro Dynamics) whereby electromagnetism interacts with electrons in atoms and molecules, one would have to find the correct 'em' frequency for the correct material being utilized for the cones. The shape of the cones could also come into play. The type and size of the wire as well as the type and thickness of the insulation between the cones and the wire would also be factors.
* Of course also, possibly 2D triangles made up of certain materials with a conductor going down through the center of the triangle could possible achieve the same 'batteryless' battery system.
* Plus possibly with the 2D concept, layered 2D's that absorb different energy frequencies, thereby increasing the net output.
He's talking about a massive Qi charger basically
Yeah it's always about money and not saving the earth.
@@eligebrown8998 all "alternative energy" technology is about the money - not saving earth.
FYI... lol
Our just have multiple sats
I would really love to read a report on how this affects the environment at a macro and localised scale based on different parameters of deployment. I wanna be optimistic and hope more work goes into this project.
It wont affect anything, that's why its so cool
2:06, he already felt hot in that small contraption and they plan to make a bigger one, I don't know, the Earth is already hot as it is.
@@inventorknowledge703 that transmitter is a prototype and if it is recieving energy then it can use some of that energy to cool itself and transmit out the rest. would be like a fridge sending out electricity to the rest of the house.
@@Deathwish026 Bruh, that's not how it works, Net energy gain, equals more heat. heat = energy, the problem is we need to transmit energy away from earth faster then we cause it to build up. for that we need to reduce green house gas levels in the atmosphere because they reflect the heat / energy back to earth and continue to heat the atmosphere.
I feel like money (and the potential thereof) is what writes those results... oh, and the ability to weaponize the tech. I'm pretty sure these folks aren't motivated by the possibility of bringing energy to sub-Saharan Africa.
Is it cost efficient, even if scaled to maximum?
I have always known we can do this. We got a big fusion reactor right there above us. Never understood why we have to build one on Earth. Wireless power is something we have dreamed of and even could be used to power electric cars and trucks.
This is so cool!! Even if the idea they have doesn’t totally pan out, ITS OKAY because that is how you do science. Trial and error, theory into practice. Excited to see how it goes and how other scientists can build upon this !
This is a scam. No telecommunication authority would approve this.
I mean, it's always been possible... but why have we suddenly thought it a good idea to start putting tons of extremely high power RF beams raining down on us? We're not just talking television service transponders or something. This is like HAARP transmitters on steroids to become useful.
Kudos to all the Geeks who helped to achieve this milestone! You should have special capes made.
Nikola Tesla was way ahead of us, if you go back in history, once he made a car fully electric with no battery and unknown power source, everyone was wondering how he did it. Now, couple of decades later, we reached his level of knowledge with this research.
If you're standing in front of a transmitter and you start feeling warm, that's not a great sign (from what I was taught as an airman basic in radar school). This seems like a neat idea, but the line of sight requirement means that you have a straight path of potential serious health issues if you're sending a lot of energy. To me this looks like a VERY specialized use case energy transfer mechanism, essentially far from living things or at least with a safe line of sight from transmitter to receiver.
Not only does this seem dangerous due to it being microwaves, I also feel like this is a smoke and mirror act. We just have to take their word for it that the drone they tested it on didn’t have a battery in it?…. Also wouldn’t it be a massive flaw if all it takes is some guys hand to shut off power to whatever the microwaves are powering?
i totally agree, this is the equivalent to standing infront of a microwave with the door oven. They say it is non ionising, so assuming they are transmitting at super high frequency, That is still not good for you ( im not a 5G hater ). And what happens if an array in space gets misaligned, a tength of a degree in space is a couple of miles on earth = rotisserie city, just like grandma made them.
@@pizzasteve haha if 5g has people worried, wait till they hear about unconfined microwaves 😃
@@austinbevis4266exactly, the clouds in our atmosphere would block the signal just like it does now with solar.
And that's low power compared to something needed to power a city or state. If it does take off and something goes wrong, many people will die and the corporations will just say sorry.
my question is how much energy is lost to the atmosphere, and specifically where. Is this going to deplete the ozone layer more than the alternatives? is it possible that it could cause harm to people near the receiver or otherwise?
Well being a 3-5 watt light bulb was enough to make a guy feel hot, imagine the 4+kw required for a house. It could power your home and melt steel at the same time.
WHY would microwave radiation affect the ozone layer?
@@reh3884 actually shooting microwaves though the atmosphere could produce ozone if I remember correctly. I don't think it would deplete it. Now cooking the guy standing on the ground... that's a real possibility. God forbid they lost control of it and it kept transmitting, it would become a WMD.
@@reh3884 i don't know too much about the atmosphere. All i know is that we're already damaging it, and I want to know if this solution is going to be less damaging than others. If you're transmitting a city worth of power from space, there's logically at least some loss to the atmosphere and i want to know if that's worse than current solutions.
@@redpug5042 I think the possibility of harvesting solar power in near future to run cities and homes without any emission of greenhouse gases is the real deal for now and I’m all in for that. However, the dissipated energy could heat up the environment more ? There is a possibility that the lost energy could radiate the existing greenhouse gases and advancing global climate change further rapidly. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Will this damage the ozone layer?
global warming 😂
This exists but we still pay 300+ a month for energy
This is amazing. I hope this works for the sake of our planet and environment.
There’s nothing wrong with our planet.
It will affect the environment, if there's too many of them.
@@niluss6 lol, nah
The only people who believe in climate change, live in big cites or are too young to have watched the tax scam evolve.
@@xploration1437 yeah, you missed the "whoa!! thats hot!!!" part, didn't you. The sheep can only see unicorn's and their biases.
Incredible!
if i imagined correctly..
This is for narrow targets.. I wonder if there is different concept application to distribute that energy to a wide field area..
Ive always thought of harvesting energy from the sun, since it is the source of energy we might want to consider when trying to obtain enough energy for space travel (Kardashev scale).
When the Dyson Swarm finally goes up, this will be the moment that future historians say was the beginning of the story.
A swarm of vacuum cleaners?
@@thatguyoverthere8355
@@thatguyoverthere8355 10 out of 10!
Isn't what this gentleman essentially describing a Dyson sphere? Especially when he mentioned "full sun sized system".
Effectively, yeah.
Yep, pretty much. If we get particular about it, it's more accurately a Dyson swarm, as it's a bunch of satellites instead of one solid structure.
The clouds are also in the way in the other direction, which is neatly demonstrated by his hand cutting off the power to the drone.
I hope to look back on this clip like we do clips from the 80’s on tech
“Let’s try this, can you turn the power off and then turn it back on”
-Genius
This could potentially be an energy harvester, and the sun shield all in one. These are the types of stories that should be promoted.
Yes, not the stories of how the Space Shuttles were supposed to pay for themselves via launching private stabilities and now we pay musk to learn to navigate in space. Let's keep that mum.
Why go through so much work to do this when we have a huge area called the Sierra desert?
It is a massive area that has almost no cloud cover and receives more sunlight than any other place on earth.
What I suggest is set up focus light energy generation plants along the coast of the Sierra desert that takes sea water and boils it to create steam, that steam turns turbines that make energy, the steam is then cooled by putting it into a distillery and turned into fresh water that then can be split into Hydrogen by the power produced by the turbines.
The Hydrogen then can be shipped in containers containing Hydride by Hydrogen powered ships to anywhere on earth and be used to run vehicles and heat homes.
This would create endless clean Hydrogen from the sun the advantage with this system is just like any fuel it can be stockpiled in abundance and used when ever it is needed unlike solar energy that is hard to store for a long period of time.
@@urgreatestenemy3044 as a cover to direct more tax moneys towards what inevitably will be the building of bunkers for the 1% on the moon...that's why we want it to be generated from space. All the things you suggest will create pollution. In our already heavily polluted planet. Where the 1% still have to live.
@@urgreatestenemy3044i did not expect that comment after seeing your pfp.
kudos for thinking independently.
@@jd35711what are my social views based on my pfp?
This reminds me of the game SimCity 2000. Kind of similar to this tech: a satellite would collect and shoot microwave energy at a collecting dish. The only problem was though the waves would sometimes miss and start fires.
Amazing tech! The possibilities for our future generations look brighter every day. Let's hope we can keep cool enough to continue to enjoy these technological advances as the decades and centuries pass.
Forward progress is always a good thing for us!!! Great job guys!!
Sir Nikolai Tesla would be proud 😊
Look up the video "Power Satellites & Space Based Solar Power" by Isaac Arthur. The TLDW summary: Space based solar is already competitive with coal / oil / gas over a 20 - 30 year runtime. The difference being that with space based solar, the great majority of that outlay is all at once, at the beginning, whereas with the traditional ground-based fossil fuel based systems, it's spread out over the entire runtime.
Wow this is awesome..great job guys!
After accumulating the sun's energy above the clouds, can it reliably pass that energy down through any clouds? If not, we haven't significantly gained much through the new system.
it depends upon the density of the clouds. thunder storms, no.
The moment I saw him block the flow with his hand, I thought the same thing. The only gain I can see is maybe beaming it down during the night, as long as the sky is clear.
it's possible to do it through clouds, but I don't think the prototypes they're using will make it through clouds.
they mentioned they're using non ionizing wave lengths. if you want to go through the clouds I think you would need smaller wave lengths and such entering the ionizing ranges, so it would probably come with a hazardous air zone immediately about the receiver where the beam would go
The advantage of space based solar is the collection source can be beyond the Earth's shadow so that it can collect solar energy 24/7. The receiver stations on earth can be located in dry desert climates that have few clouds to maximize efficiency and then distributed from there thru transmission lines. It's a long way off if it's ever even economically viable in the first place.
@@quietus13 nope, that does not work well.... For the same reason that solar collection in those places does not work as well. How do you move the power? On wires? they lose electricity ever meter. In batteries? 1) EXPENISVE and 2) they lose power also The best idea I have heard of is using artificial fuel ( like gasoline). You use the solar power to create carbon neutral fuel and then transport it to where ever. Yes you lose energy in this process also, BUT you lose LESS then the other systems and it is cheaper as well then the batteries.
Plus if we use that, then we can switch older cars to synthetic gas and help with pollution.
Right now the only place trying this idea (artificial fuel) is using nuclear power. I would rather see solar used then creating more nuclear waste.
I wonder what the collectors will cost (vs the ground-based solar systems). As with all things, I imagine future iterations and lateral technological advancements will produce pleasing advancements provided the research continues and/or is carried out by competing scientists. Also, as the launch costs decrease and the Guru-type technology matures, it will be even more impressive. Hopefully applications remain peaceful and beneficial to all, but big money comes from military contracts. And, when the military is involved, countermeasure systems are right alongside such research. Additionally, such technology could be used with extraplanetary rovers, moon bases (those housed in the shadowy regions of craters), rescue operations, off-grid establishments (with money to burn, I guess).
Why should a cost even be factored?? Money is such an antiquated concept for World-saving technology.
The problem with your question is "How much it will cost".
It doesn't have to cost anything. The monetary system is too ingrained in our brainwashed minds.
Well, one thing for sure, this is another utility driven energy distribution system, which means take from the many and give to the few. Home rooftop solar puts a little bit of money in everyone's pocket. This will take a little bit of everyone's money and put it in the pockets of a few.
@@mickael486 Nothing is truly free. Someone will have to exchange something in order for you to access this technology, at least for a time. After many years it will be making no money because someone will have thought of something better. As that happens, this will have become more widely available to the world. Those with money get everything new for a time. When it is old, the rest will have it. I'm in my mid twenties and I believe that either my children or grandchildren will see free energy for the entire world in some form or another.
@@mickael486 it has to cost what they invest doing this possible, + all the technology employed on it... Chips cost for example because there's a whole process behind it, you know how difficult is to fabricate the transistors that maje your cellphone work??? No you don't your not an Electronic engineer... Well I know, and is not just about the wafers with the Extreme UV machines that are expensive by themselves, to achieve 5 nm 4nm technologies, but also all the process of etching, polishing, etc. The design that engineers have to make to achieve maximum use of the wafers, try to optimize power area and performance somehow because one improved makes the others worse... And even the resources taken from the Earth, because yes Si is everywhere, is sand, not difficult to get should be free, but you have many chemical components in the chips, Gold, Silver, Al, Ga, In, P, Sb, As, etc. Etc. For the dopants, for the connectors, for the BEOL FEOL layers, and every other components in the chip, capacitors, some resistors, the PCB itsel is another material, most of the modern cellphones are IP65 or IP67 of protection, so the same with their technology might have some conditions to gather the beam, is not easy, therefore is not free 😋.... If it was free the Engineers wouldn't have a job and all those years of Fourier transforms and Quantum mechanics that not everyone goes through would be in vain
Energy is always free. It's the collection, transformation and transmission that costs
I wonder what the speed and strength of the energy transfer is. It might be good for communication if its faster than radio waves.
I'm not sure our Planet's climate, and the life it supports, could recover after waiting 1 to 2 decades for this badly needed technology to become an available reality.
If NASA, Space X, ESA, JPL, other Science academia organizations, & the commercial energy sector had the Will to work together... this technology could be a reality much, much sooner.
We need to scale up progress in other areas too, that way we aren't simply waiting on this.
While this is great, this would also mean that we now have solar powered death ray satellites orbiting earth. I hope the software and the respective keys are well maintained and kept extra secure lol. I don't get how this hasnt caused an uproar/debate yet.
Exactly but the braindead slaves in the comments here just gobble all the propaganda up. The idea of filling our already polluted lower earth orbit with more satellites, ones the size of football fields, to then transform solar energy into microwave energy to then be beamed back to earth is absurd. Not to mention we would have to implement infrastructure and hardware to convert all those microwaves into electricity. Also, just because microwaves are non ionizing doesn't mean that they have no biological effects. For example our body has adapted and evolved around more powerful UVB rays that we use to produce vitamin D. Just because a 2.45ghz frequency is non ionizing doesnt mean it can have specific effects, such as dielectric heating with water molecules which is why this is used in microwave ovens. The idea of polluting our environment with a bunch of different frequencies of microwaves that were never naturally present on earth is very dangerous. Some animals and insects are even more sensitive to this than us humans.
oh right and ofc the frequencies disturb too
1:20
As an Electrical engineer, this is all great in theory and not reality for mass market. This may be good for initial projects going to different planets, but its the dumbest idea in history to put this in space for all our power needs.
Brings back happy memories of playing Sim City 2000. I'd set up a large microwave array then sit back with the popcorn for a few in-game years to watch a orbital misfire happen and burn a swath through the city. 😆🔥
HEY! I LOVED IT and regular Sim City! SNES
Hey guys! Would love to have some answers/ solutions for these:
1. Something like this would take a lot to maintain in the space right?
2. From maintaining its orbit and to making it not so much lightweight that it would delocate from the orbit or it might get damaged from the massive solar flares, How would we tackle those? (I guess protective films would be able to help but how would we apply them on the modules as they are very thin?
3. How would we make the modules move relative to the speed of the object which is getting the energy for example car, train, planes? How would we monitor so many transports?
4. What is the efficiency?
Weight isn't really a factor when it comes to maintaining an orbit, as any object in orbit is going to be there pretty much indefinitely.
In theory it will eventually run out of momentum, but there's so little up there that could slow it down that you're almost certainly not going to have to do anything more than occasionally adjust in order to remain in a geostationary position.
The only thing that weight really affects significantly is how hard it is to achieve orbit and how easy it is to make adjustments when there.
Maintenance would be a concern, but if the technology has minimal moving parts and doesn't degrade when exposed to those radiation levels it might not need much unless it gets hit by space debris, which is a very unlikely outcome.
@@casanovafunkenstein5090 Thank you! I understood! 👍
How much heat will it exert on the earth?
If someone stands in the beam for an extended period of time, will their health be affected?
These are the kinds of questions you should be asking.
And also how about the ground-based telescope? Isn't the carpet will obstruct the view from space ??
most likely there will be substations that receive the initial source of energy and than that will be distributed in other various styles to the current power grid.
AC current is generated by spinning magnets. Right now we use gas engines to spin the magnets, we could use this beam as a way to power the spinning of magnets, and those magnets could run our current energy grid indefinitely
This is why Star Ship is so important. People have crunched the numbers on this technology and ten flights of Star Ship will be able to send enough of these solar arrays in orbit to power all of New York City. The best thing about it is the DOD wants to fund all the research and development, because it means that the US Army will no longer have to rely on fuel trucks.
Look at how many times he blinks when he asks "Is this safe to have around humanity" You will see a change.
I'm not crying, the Sun went in my eye...
The one big drawback is when the control system gets hacked and the energy beam is used for destruction. But that is the case for all sources of energy.
If its using microwave energy I'm more thinking of what it would do to clouds when these are scaled up
Why go through so much work to do this when we have a huge area called the Sierra desert?
It is a massive area that has almost no cloud cover and receives more sunlight than any other place on earth.
What I suggest is set up focus light energy generation plants along the coast of the Sierra desert that takes sea water and boils it to create steam, that steam turns turbines that make energy, the steam is then cooled by putting it into a distillery and turned into fresh water that then can be split into Hydrogen by the power produced by the turbines.
The Hydrogen then can be shipped in containers containing Hydride by Hydrogen powered ships to anywhere on earth and be used to run vehicles and heat homes.
This would create endless clean Hydrogen from the sun the advantage with this system is just like any fuel it can be stockpiled in abundance and used when ever it is needed unlike solar energy that is hard to store for a long period of time.
I'm wondering what it would do to the ozone layer at the higher levels they're talking about. It's not very difficult to separate O3.
@@urgreatestenemy3044 Has anyone ever built a steam engine that runs on seawater before?
@mqb3gofjzkko7nzx38 Not sure about a steam engine running on saltwater. But I see no difference in running a terminal solar plant on sea water as saltwater will boil and create steam that would turn the turbines.
I'm sure there would be issues with the brime water that is left after boiling, the longer you keep the water boiling the more salt would build up as when water boils away the salt would remain.
Salt is also a little bit corrosive so you would probably have to use materials other than iron for moving the sea water around the plant but those are only minor problems that have to be accounted for.
All of our science fiction dreams of the future are slowly coming true. This is an amazing breakthrough with endless potential. The future is now!
Clearly y'all haven't seen The Cloverfield paradox yet
Pure free energy.. could you imagine how this would change everything?
Yeah free trip to space, free materials, free workers on ground and infrastructure.
Which is why it'll never happen, Oil and Gas will never allow it
@@TheCool_Guy23this is worse than oil and gas. Let’s put a (his words) “heat lamp” directly onto earth. Talk about global warming. Comments here oblivious to silent contributor to the drying out of the earth and all of its inhabitants… Electromagnetic Radiation.
This could be a ground breaking breakthrough
People still believe our Freemason history, they were doing it, along with curing cancer and other ailments, before our time. It was all removed
Nope. This isn't a new thing. And it's completely unfeasible. At best it will be the next gen of CHI wireless phone chargers.
@@motosk8er2 It's not unfeasible if the ancients used it to power the cities here and off planet. There is only opposition to change and progress which we are all used to.
@@togowack Yes. It 100% is lmao. So your a crazy person then?
@@motosk8er2If it was feasible the amount of energy that would be in transmitted through the air is insane and unsafe. I don’t get how this stuff makes the news.
I wonder how this would cost vs how much ground based solar with ultra high voltage DC lines going around the earth.
What an incredible achievement!
If a hand can block the power wont a storm cloud block it too? And would it make lightning more powerful if it arced to the wave or something? Its really intresting tho and it is pretty amazing
I agree but I suggest watching this video on space x energy transferring, across the sky ,
It’s a lot different from this or it may be exactly the same , but you can’t really see the energy beams during the day, but at night if you stare at the stars every night you can see it , I live I Texas and I see it a lot and my friends do too
I always love when these big idea tech types answer a question like "how long will this take?" with something like "we're looking at a decade or two." Like, maybe if they use the "one or two" language, it will seem shorter than saying "maybe ten or twenty years."
But why should they lie? It very well could take 10+ years to create it at scale.
i watched the moon landing on a black-and-white cathode ray tube. i'm typing this comment on a 1cm-thick laptop with no moving parts.
20 years is not a long time.
Who says "Ten or twenty years." instead of "One or two decades." though?
The future of electric vehicles isn't in batteries, it's in beamed power. This negates a lot of the arguments against EV's, mainly that the manufacturing contributes to pollution, rather than alleviating it.
Wow….just; WOW!
Im really curious how this effects the area around usas far as radiation Is it safe to stand in front of energy transfer for long periods of time
as it is not ionizing then it wont damage cells and cause cancer. they did mention transmitting energy at lower levels than what you would receive from the sun. i think they said its sent through microwaves
We dont know dawg thats why they are learning about it ...
I’m curious how storm clouds and other weather conditions would affect it. Also sending those large panels into space sounds like the job for a very large reusable rocket. #spacex
Ya, clouds would make this setup impractical.
It would cuck it for sure, but its prolly really low frequency anyways.
I was thinking about the latest hype from the fusion crowd recently and it occured to me, that fusion, this space array, home solar, none of it will save us and the reason is, more energy, whether it's clean or not, means more economic growth. More economic growth means more development of land. More development of land means more habitat loss. More habitat loss means more extinction, more extinction means the web of life will fail.
Now we also need an efficient way to store the energy.
If this breakthrough is a success, we might just be a step away from entering the next level of civilization, harnessing all the power from our own Sun.
"The power of the sun, in the palm of my hands."
Thats fusion
brilliant!!! I hope they get the funding they need to realize it and I hope it will be affordable especially to those who needs it the most.
plus even if the beams were dangerous you could transmit them to remote places or a designated area
Wait. So if solar panels in space can harvest 8x more energy and transmit it in the form of a beam that produces heat similar to a heat lamp, did they decide that climate change was moving to slow and wanted to take matters into their own hands??
And also, the guy saying it was a good thing to power planes immediately after he learned that his brief interruption of the line of contact resulted in the drone falling out of the sky was an interesting progression of thought.
In all seriousness, it just seems like for however much energy they can collect from this method, they’ll be directing and losing tons of energy in the form of heat into the atmosphere, and our particular planet really doesn’t need more heat at the moment. Maybe for Mars. Here on Earth, it just doesn’t seem like a scalable solution? Maybe I’m misunderstanding the technology.