Fermilab's accelerator is now delivering more neutrinos to experiments than ever before. The U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has achieved a significant milestone for ...
Flying over Pennsylvania, the small airplane wirelessly beamed power down to receivers on the ground. The flight test marked ...
The idea of using satellites to beam solar power down from space is nothing new — the Department of Energy first studied it in the 1970s, and NASA took another look in the '90s. The stumbling block ...
UK-based startup Space Solar has successfully completed crucial tests of its power-beaming technology, with an aim to deliver wireless power from space. The company said that space-based solar power ...
As part of their special report on wireless technology, Wired reviews the possibility of wireless power beams: [S]cientists have shown that one can generate power, convert it to lasers or microwaves, ...
The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. Lasers have been around since the 1950s, but the technology didn’t really take off until about a ...