Ariel Ekblaw

We're super excited to be working with companies that are thinking about the future of space-based solar power.

Thinking about how do you capture raw, unfiltered sunlight above the clouds way more efficient, concentrate it, and beam it down to Earth.

You could have New York City powered at night by a beam from space.

Yes.

This company, Overview Energy, has basically figured out a way to do it very safely.

So like you said, it's a concentrated beam, so it's not going to light up the city.

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.