This will help us become a type 1 Kardashev scale civilization! I hope that all people on earth will get access to it, a whole new open-source community has to be built around this and all nations should be involved. Well done to this team and everyone else involved in taking such a great spot in human history. Wow!

I can't wait to hear more on this project. Thank you.

Last time I looked at available tech here (some years back...), getting the material to space and assembling it, collecting energy, and beaming it to earth were not the biggest challenges; it was that the energy densities of the beam had to be kept very low so it doesn't fry things on earth (that was with microwaves...). At that look, with beam energy densities held below "allowable" limits for human and other exposure, you would need huge antennas on earth to generate significant power. Don't recall sizes, think was many square miles at minimum -- but conclusion then: just put your solar panels in the same space on the ground in sunny places and pump into the grid. Will need to look further at this to see what their idea is. Beyond that, what looks new and different here is the phased arrays of PV chips and the ability to actively direct beam direction and focal distance. That is cool

i'm annoyed that he did not state how much energy is lost in transmission i'm assuming it is AN ABSURD AMOUNT of power wasted to transmit it to ground Starlink uses 50W+ just to transmit data to space, i'm curious how inefficient phased array antenna power transmission is

Finally the dream of Great Scientist Nikola Tesla coming to reality after a delay of few decades which was caused because of some greedy persons of His time....I wish he could see his invention turning reality 😢

This is great. I first heard of the concept after watching City of the future: Singapore and seeing that they have launched a station in space blew my mind. this technology will help a lot of isolated islands . Not to mention us filmmakers, there will be no need to carry heavy power generators to charge the film gear in the middle of the desert

So Fascinating! Beamforming is a inspiring technology

Great to see my favourite professor 😊

I can see this going in so many different ways. Hes essentially creating the possibility of a Dyson sphere and some how highlighting the geopolitics of it simultaneously. I cant wait to see what happens.

Congrats Dr. Hajimiri and team ! Amazing achievement for humanity, and also a continuation of Ancient Iranians’ Earth-friendly innovations. Afarin!! ❤

what the password of your wireless energy? hahaha

The idea and technology is really so great ....🎉

wow! great presentation!

Wow and the elegance of the solution is insane!

He's in the news now!

Keeping the cost and hassle and distance aside , I don't understand how the major problems which you mentioned related to putting panels in Deserts are solved by putting panels in space ? You said space receives 8 times more energy received than the surface of the earth because of atmospheric absorption, night, season etc, but all these factors will come into play in case of panels in space too. The energy which you are sending from satellite will also suffer atmospheric absorption, (I can think of ionosphere very quickly which can disrupt electric energy), how about cloud covers etc. And satellite above a lot of countries doesn't always get sunlight, it depends on too many factors, the earths shadow can and will be the there on satellite for long periods. Also what kind of disruption will it cause to flights, birds and other safety etc when you send high powered electric beams from space ? Isn't it more practical to extract the energy when you are receiving it for free here in the surface from the Sun.

So happy to be alive

Thank you

My favorite professor.

Im just mind blown by all the emergence of new technology that is happening everyday.

Does this require a direct line of sight? Wouldn't that hamper the scalability of the transfer?

Good job Mr

Scary and fascinating at same time🥲

3:57 : I think you missed the timing on that joke, mate ahaha. Only kidding of course. Great presentation!

so good 👍👍

It's amazing

What about the impact of this high energy EM waves on human tissues. How safe is this ?? Any research in this direction would be mandatory

In 2006, Huntington Beach CA, and during an R&D meeting at my company, I proposed the concept of developing a wireless charging solution for our cutting-edge laptop brand, "Zinoh." Despite facing skepticism from engineers who initially considered it implausible to transmit electricity through the atmosphere, I held firm to the vision. Today, I'm grateful for the innovative minds that embraced the challenge and turned this once-dismissed idea into a reality. Unfortunately, our brand didn't thrive, but the experience underscores the importance of embracing bold ideas that push the boundaries of what is deemed possible.

This would be huge for Mars. Because of the dust storms, solar panels on the surface are less than ideal. This has led us to use miniature nuclear reactors to power our latest and largest rovers.

The word to power „everything“ is definitely too good to be true.

The indoor application looks very promising. But for the satellite projection; wouldn't we still need to install a solar panel like infrastructure on the ground to receive the energy? What will be the benefit of this approach? Will it eliminate the need to store energy on the ground? Because that alone would be a big step forward.

Btw, great explanation about how this works 👏

surprisingly this video also partly teaches how aesa radar works using tr modules

Remarkable

Amazing, so many things are limited by battery time today, especially drones, imagine a plugged in station beaming power to the drone to fly over long distances. Or that all mobile phones will auto charge via a station at home, no nees to put down

It been powering everything since the beginning of this planet.

I like it!

the question for me is the efficienty of the process. this energy need to pass VERY big distance to her destination and through the atmosphere. is it possible? and more important, this approach are enough economical compare to our exsisting solutions?

Military : So you're saying that we could send a person "some" energy from a distance?

RF is just a subset of the electromagnetic spectrum, the carrier wave/particle of which is the photon. This is just more complicated solar. It needs a serious cost/benefit analysis versus other forms of solar energy. I suspect that the cost of development of the technology, testing, and deployment to space would be a greater cost than deploying ground based solar for the same energy collected.

'BATTERYLESS BATTERIES': (copy and paste from my files): To help power equipment in outer space: Potential endless energy source basically anywhere in this universe: a. Small aluminum cones with an electrical wire running through the center of the cones, cones spaced apart (not touching I'm thinking) but end to end. b. Electromagentic radiation energy in the atmosphere interacts with the aluminum cones. c. Jostled atoms and molecules in the cone eventually have some electrons try to get away from other electrons of which those electrons gather at the larger end of the cone, of which also creates an area of positive charge at the smaller end of the cone. d. The electron's in the wire are attracted to the positive end of the cone and the positive 'end' in the wire are attracted to the negatively charged end of the cone. e. Basically a 'battery' has been created inside the electrical wire itself, different areas of electrical potential. Basically a 'wire battery' or a 'batteryless battery', however one wanted to call it. f. Numerous cones placed end to end increases the number of 'batteries' in the wire. (In series to increase voltage, in parallel to increase amperage). * Via QED (Quantum Electro Dynamics) whereby electromagnetism interacts with electrons in atoms and molecules, one would have to find the correct 'em' frequency for the correct material being utilized for the cones. The shape of the cones could also come into play. The type and size of the wire as well as the type and thickness of the insulation between the cones and the wire would also be factors. * Of course also, possibly 2D triangles made up of certain materials with a conductor going down through the center of the triangle could possible achieve the same 'batteryless' battery system. * Plus possibly with the 2D concept, layered 2D's that absorb different energy frequencies, thereby increasing the net output.

The wireless technology was awesomeness🎉

Noval concept interesting 😮

For any techy, nerdy, scifi person out there, I cannot recommend enough that you read Isaac Asimov's books and short stories! He was decades ahead of his time and predicted this very technology 70 years ago!

This is really cool, but what are the caveats to a system like this? EMF for example. In my opinion, more studies should be conducted regarding the EMF with respect to the human body. It is a wave/signal that would technically transmit through the body if one were in-between. Again, I think we could/should pursue these types of wireless energy transfers while in parallel studying best safety approaches.

5:24 did anyone see that jump cut in the demo video?

دمت گرم دایی ،کارت درسته👌

i uess moon can be used for this... ie its relatively stationary... atleast more stable then satelites... ie place lots of panels there and beam it from a one emitter to specific position on eart... as its only one stabilising the target point will cost less and easier to adjust compared to satelite based repositionning protocols...

He should have mentioned the results of their experiment!!! :O Did it work at all? Etc. off... now I have to research... and people won't be convinced :( It will hopefully become amazing though! :D

Very interesting. Look around your neighborhood at all the electric lines and poles. Imagine all the poles and lines gone. Imagine not starting wildfires because there are no more high voltage electric cables going for miles in the forest. We need this ASAP.

Getting more energy from space when we can't even get rid of the excess and the Earth is over-heating seems a brilliant idea indeed.

This is such great tech. I can't believe he didn't mention Nikola Tesla as the pioneer of Wireless energy transmition

Thought is perhaps much ahead of time and that's why there are some ifs and buts... If the wireless energy transfer happens, it would be the best green energy revolution ever Too good 👍 👌 👏 ❤

this looks dream

Can the direction changing be vulnerable to some form of external interference ? it seems when directing energy it is important that it gets delivered to a very specific intended location. Should some disturbance occur one could envision a misdirected "beam" cause effects harmful to life forms that come subjected to it ? On the other hand if possibility for disturbance is low then I imagine it could be difficult for a third party to protect against undesired effects of energy transfer on a 'receiving end' ? Concerns of the technology becoming employed in weapons development.

it enables a Dyson swarm!

It’s The Powers that Be in the way of progress.

🔥🔥🔥

cool :)

The perfect UFO stage setting

@2:05 this must be kinda how prayer works

so genius in progress

Loss of efficiency through the attenuation of signal would mean the panel in space would need to be massive. The cost of launching this massive structure would make it economically unviable. Indoor applications are too niche to reach mass adoption, hence why he’s pitching to a TED audience and not to the market. Interesting idea, but DOA without an actual problem this can solve.

My only concern is possibly biological impact if this goes large scale

I wonder about living things in the pathway of the energy likes birds, trees and us and what happens with absorbing that energy and is it dangerous, etc.

Sunlight is wireless energy that gets delivered to earth..

you can charge your celphone with wireless sender bcz its electromagnetic wave. buy can you do same in long distance?

endless possibilities ...

The solar array / antenna would need to be huge. To be economical it would have to be very lightweight. What you end up with is a solar sail that impossible to keep an orbit. Another consequence of being so big is that it would be hit by micrometeoroids frequently and generate a large amount of space debris. At the altitude of geosynchronous orbit, the debris cloud would persist essentially forever. Finally, suppose this could be done. What would the light pollution be like on Earth from hundreds or thousands of square miles of solar panels?

Wow this should be more widely reported than apple vision pro

❤

Perhaps a scalable unit panel with sustainment in mind could be the way.

We already have wireless energy from space... it's called sunshine

I was researching on how to do it already existing technologies, but aslong nothing moves it's better way to make it using components

Wait so you launched the rocket with your test on board ... did it work!?!? Good god man the suspense

Good speech!

Just Amazing…

Energy will reduce twice the distance, and it also depends on the large aperture of the antenna on the ground station. He should have mentioned how much energy is received at ground station from space.

Who gets to control the steering mechanism? I've heard about this fantasy for a half century (read too many sci fi novels as a kid) but the logistics get in the way of taking this seriously.

Timing is everything. New old news old new news new old news is everything.

😊😊

Well, technically just an advertisement. What could justify the concept is to know what is the end of the line efficiency? How much of energy these transceivers waste? What is the life time of the panels? Could they survive solar winds? How much energy is required to keep them in the orbit, without solar push? What is the cost and size of the end of the line earth station antennas? What is the transmission loss? How do they compare to alternatives? We know polyamide based substrate should go bad with radiation and thermal stress sooner or later. Well, these questions are being evaluated probably , but then some charts and plots could have helped. I see at some point a better future for power transmission only component. Say we have 4 large solar farms in Africa, in Chile, in Australia and in Asian deserts, they can provide a flat power plateau when combined 24-7. Just need massive repeater-reflector-power hubs in the space, and local power receivers on earth. Well, this is maybe too inefficient in the end…

Hopefully he’ll live long enough to do this

That's wonderful! Please, create a vacuum cleaner without cable. Moving Miele vacuum cleaner on his own cable is something you need to try to understand how messy it is. You loose the will to clean the house.

Been screaming this since I saw Lex Podcast with Brian Keating ⚠️🌐🧐🤌 Galileo and the lense 🥸 Celestial energy can be harnessed tho provide energy on Earths surface

1. What frequency? 2. How much power? 3. Is it funded by defence?

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this is how @3:27 starlink ground atenaea access the low orbit satellites.

yeah, let's collect energy from an even larger area of space and concentrate it in the same volume, can't think why that could be a long term problem...

Ask the people of Maui…what they think of energy from space….Blazing good ideas!!!

I heard about this from Art Bell 25 years ago.

Goodbye birds 😂

We don’t build dreams ………we build bombs, to destroy dreams

Heading to Dyson spheres soon 😆.

Integrate this technology into starlink. They already have the infrastructure to add these to their existing satellites, and they could create power and WiFi worldwide simultaneously. Would make for an awesome future. They might even sell more teslas if you didn’t have to go charge them 🤷🏼‍♂️

7:54 *you can think about sending this to a remote sub-saharan village where there's no infrastructure for power transmission....* Imagine thinking that this abismal alternative to having and owning your own infrastructure in your sovereign territory would not lead to cases of people waving their basic energy autonomy to someone else from a far distance.... They could give you some bullcr@p story that they cannot send you all the energy that you need and you would have to take them at their word... This is energetic enslavement I prefer solar alternatives where independent producers of energy can resell their energy back into the grid.... *This sounds to me like a last ditch attempt at having energy companies being the only ones who could create and maintain such facilities* .... *it doesn't scale down to the average joe in the street with his solar panel feeding the grid.... It's more like the billionaire exclusivist cake for only them to enjoy* Just *THINK ABOUT IT*

If the only application for this was to safely beam down power from space to grid stations and replace current dirty electrical generation systems, it would change humanity. No more excuses on switching to electric transport systems. Massive gains in reduction of fossil fuel usage world wide. I would love to see the impact this could have on aviation considering the safety concerns would be lower related to the energy wave traveling between space and the atmosphere and never having to reach more populated areas. Also shipping. Beam power directly to ships in shipping lanes away from populated areas.

This could be the precursor to matter conversion and matter conversion the precursor to immortality. If you can conceive of something it's likely possible.

Amazing possibilities

The Dyson Sphere is born