This week, Seattle-based startup Radical revealed it has successfully tested a full-scale prototype of its super-thin, ...

Solar power is the cheapest source of electricity in history. But since it isn’t always sunny, and battery storage is still fairly expensive, a handful of startups are working on a different approach: ...

Harvesting solar energy in orbit and beaming it down to Earth is a decades-old idea. Now, a raft of companies say they could ...

The China National Intellectual Property Administration granted Patent No. ZL202080074034.9 (Publication No. CN114902807B) for Beam Global’s innovation. Unlike conventional hybrid systems where wind ...

The future of energy is a pivotal conversation, with solar power taking center stage. Two key methods of harnessing this energy are ground-based solar power and space-based solar energy beam. This ...

A space solar power prototype has demonstrated its ability to wirelessly beam power through space and direct a detectable amount of energy toward Earth for the first time. The experiment proves the ...

TROY, MI - In space, the sun is always shining. So why not put a solar farm up there? One Michigan startup is already on its way, aiming to take an idea featured in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction 80 ...

It was a reflector carried on a hot air balloon. In the test, a flat, square mirror roughly 2.5 metres across directs a beam of light down to solar panels and sensors. In one instance the team ...