Ariel Ekblaw

It's not going to affect animals.

It's not going to affect kids, homes.

Seasons.

Yeah, not going to affect seasons.

It's essentially something that you would beam down onto maybe even existing solar panels.

And then they also control the energy of it so that a plane can fly through it.

Yeah, exactly.

So it doesn't overload it.

It is not a concentrated thing that could cause any damage.

So it doesn't basically require an air traffic control keep-out zone, for example.

And this is an incredible innovation that we've known how to do in some way since the 1970s, but it wasn't cheap enough until recently when the costs to get to space have dropped so dramatically to begin to make this a reality.

I think inside five years, they're going to have power beaming demos from orbit.

They just did an airplane-based power beaming demo, so they showed that it could do it as they're moving in a plane.

So I think within five years, they'll have power beaming from space, certainly.

And at 10-year mark, you're thinking about power utilities from space, fundamental green energy, and much more abundant energy.

That's a much more profoundly clean way to deliver energy to the global south as they start to industrialize even further, rather than needing to rely on fossil fuels or some of the ways in which other nations came up through industrial energy use.

So I think there's a really interesting twin opportunity between Earth and space there to act as ethical, space-bearing, and Earth-based citizens.

Thank you so much for having me.

Yeah.

So it was an amazing process to put together with my curator.