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JAPAN’S SPECTACULAR BREAKTHROUGH IN WIRELESS ENERGY TRANSMISSION
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uman-made satellites like the International Space Station, have long been able to utilize the solar energy that affects from the sun, getting that power back to Earth where people can use it.
they can get into what this wireless energy transmitted is for- JAXA has been investing on a system that would use solar-powered satellites to transmit energy directly to the Earth.
The Japanese breakthrough gives the hope that humans will This Space Solar Power System would define that solar one day be able to use an inexhaustible source of energy in power would be available anywhere on the earth, at any space. time of day, regardless of whether or there is no sunlight on the planet. JAXA’s ideal goal is to set up solar panels and ‘Breakthrough in wireless energy transmission’, What does antennae nearby 22,300 miles from the Earth, which could this mean exactly? It’s that humanity which has now take various decades to practically realize. JAXA has officially begun to realize one of the most aspiring thought evaluated that the system would probably not be ready until experiments of the 20th century - The Dyson Sphere. 2040 and they even haven't find out how to achieve the large structure they need into space, or how to develop it, or Japan is struggling to expand its scientific opportunities. how to maintain it. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has contributed to this major scientific achievement. With the Hats off to all those Scientists! Just imagine the power of use of microwaves, JAXA’s researchers were able to this innovation. When a great theoretical physicist and transmit 1.8 kilowatts of energy through the air to a receiver mathematician Freeman Dyson look through the science 170 feet away. There are no wires, no cables, no pipelines, fiction novel Star Maker, he was truly inspired to propose no trains, no trucks, no nothing. Just Energy. Through the what has become called as the Dyson Sphere, which is a air. Granted, it is not a lot of energy –1.8 kW is about wide range of solar panels that enclose the sun and beam sufficient to run an electric kettle, according to the reports. energy back to the Earth. Considering JAXA continues to improve this technology, and assuming it looks a major “This was the first time someone has managed to send a investment from the right parties, at the end of this modern high output of nearly 2 kilowatts of electric power through era we could have access to a renewable, sustainable source microwaves to a small target, with the use of a delicate of energy. directivity control device,” as per JAXA researches. Today,
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