How to Get Solar Power on a Rainy Day? Beam It From Space
How to Get Solar Power on a Rainy Day? Beam It From Space
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 9, 20198m 6s
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Show Notes
Earlier this year, a small group of spectators gathered in David Taylor Model Basin, the Navy’s cavernous indoor wave pool in Maryland, to watch something they couldn’t see. At each end of the facility there was a 13-foot pole with a small cube perched on top. A powerful infrared laser beam shot out of one of the cubes, striking an array of photovoltaic cells inside the opposite cube. To the naked eye, however, it looked like a whole lot of nothing.
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