In his short story “Reason”, published in 1941, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov described a universe in which humans harvest solar power in space to sustain life on earth.
Eighty years later, and at the crux of a global climate emergency, the idea of capturing the sun’s energy with vast solar panels in space and transmitting it back to earth via microwaves could become reality.
China, the US, Europe and Japan are all developing projects. Beijing even plans to have a working system by the 2030s, according to reports from China-based media.
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