DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
D AILY INNOVATION BRIEF By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane WORLD 1st: SPACE SOLAR POWER BEAMED TO EARTH Source: Caltech & Stock In a world first, scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have wirelessly beamed clean space solar power to earth It's a powerful source of sustainable energy, never blocked by clouds or darkness & was first envisioned by science fiction writer Isac Asimov in 1941 Wireless beaming was achieved by an instrument called MAPLE (Microwave Array for Power Transfer Low-orbit Experiment) that's aboard the spacecraft Space Polar Power Demonstrator, which was created and launched by Caltech to harvest solar power in space and send it to Earth to specific locations as a permanent energy source It's estimated that space-based harvesters can pull i