Solaris program will study space-based solar power amid rising energy concerns.
Research ministers at the ESA's triennial council are expected to meet today, Tuesday, November 22, to discuss the ESA'S idea. They will also consider several other proposals before deciding the budget for the next phase of the space agency's space technology development plans.
In an interview with the BBC, ESA director general Josef Aschbacher said, "we do need to convert into carbon neutral economies and therefore change the way we produce energy and especially reduce the fossil fuel part of our energy production. If you can do it from space, and I'm saying if we could, because we are not there yet, this would be absolutely fantastic because it would solve a lot of problems.
The ESA's Solaris proposal comes at a time when the world is increasingly turning to novel renewable energy technologies, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine deepensThough the idea has been around for decades, until recently, space-based solar power has been viewed as too expensive and difficult to put into practice.
The ESA's Solaris program aims to test and research the technology required to harvest energy in space before wirelessly moving it to a receiving station using microwave beams. This has already been shown to work over relatively small distances. During a September demonstration test at Airbus' HQ in Munich, engineers successfully sent 2 KW of electricity collected by solar panels to collectors more than 30 meters away.
The next step is to determine whether this can be carried out over more than 22,000 miles at which geostationary satellites typically orbit above the Earth.
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