Ariel Ekblaw

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1,219 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2025 last heard 26 Jun

Ariel Ekblaw’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Short Wave · Could Architecture In Space Make A Greener Earth? · 16 Dec 2025 podcast

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.

TED Talks Daily · Beyond the Talk: Ariel Ekblaw on space-based technology and architecture · 30 May 2025 podcast

Yeah.

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

I'm so grateful to the help that she gave me in not just shaping the talk, but the ideas and the framework behind the message that we really want to share.

And that's what I think is so special about the process is refining to the very core what is that idea that's so important to really share with the public and share with the audience.

We have so many things that we take for granted in our field, which I think is true for a lot of folks coming from academia.

It was really interesting for me to hear feedback and then also from folks that I was practicing the talk with.

What is familiar to people outside of science fiction who weren't steeped in it from when they were a child?

what is and isn't familiar to people about where have we been in space?

People see The Martian and they think, oh, great, we've had humans on Mars for some period of time.

And really smart people can understandably think that there's this crossover now between hyper-realistic sci-fi and reality, what is real and what's not.

So learning what really resonated with people and where they were at and learning to communicate to reach that audience was really an amazing experience for me.

Thank you.

Hello.

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