The young researchers gathered on the rooftop of Caltech’s engineering laboratory in Pasadena on a balmy May evening did not set out to make history that night. But after a long day setting up …
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Ali Hajimiri thinks there’s a better way to power the planet — one that’s not getting the attention it deserves. The Caltech professor of electrical engineering envisages thousands of solar panels …
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The idea of space-based solar power (SBSP) – using satellites to collect energy from the Sun and "beam" it to collection points on Earth – has been around since at least the late 1960s. Despite its …
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