The European Space Agency is considering the 'Solaris Initiative' plan to collect solar energy in orbit and beaming electricity back to Earth.
For space-based solar power to work, engineers have to be able to wirelessly transmit gigawatts of energy safely and reliably from space.Space chiefs are to investigate whether electricity could be beamed wirelessly from space into millions of homes.
, the so-called Solaris initiative would be the first to lay the ground for a practical plan to develop a space-based renewable energy generation system. ''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," he said.we could, because we are not there yet, this would be absolutely fantastic because it would solve a lot of problems."Satellites with solar panels would need to be around 1.
ESA is seeking funds from its member nations for a research programme it calls Solaris, to see if these developments mean that it is now possible to develop spaced based solar power reliably and cheaply enough to make it economically viable. A key focus of the Solaris programme is to establish whether it is possible. This can't of course be done with an extremely long cable, so it has to be sent wirelessly, using microwave beams.
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