The growing demand for electricity is forcing some companies not only to think out of the box for a solution, but also beyond this world.
Researchers want to promote air and solar power. Many startups and small companies look at the revolution in this sector, as to build the world’s largest aircraft in the world to build and build a. Solar vinegy In space to make electric beams on earth.
Thoughts look like moon shots, but there is a possibility that both of them begin in the next five years.
Jumbo jet
A challenge for wind farm developers is the logistics to move long turbine blades into rural areas by truck or rail. For Colorado -based radios, the solution is to develop a special jumbo aircraft that has the capacity to carry the same turbine blade that can currently be about 50 % longer than those used in wind farms.
For the past eight years, Radia has worked for the design and development of the Wonderron aircraft, which will be about 40 40 % longer than the Boeing 747 jet, founder Mark Lindstrom said.
“In the airplane, there is no new technology,” he told CBC News in Houston last week. We have already designed the aircraft around the flying items. “
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In addition to the size of the aircraft, the aircraft also need the ability to land on the gravel runway built at rural places where air forms will be constructed.
Generally, the turbine blade installed on the ground is about 70 70 meters in length, but those who are more than 100 meters longer than the sea measurement. Radia’s plane will take long blades in new air forms.
Lindstrom said, “With large turbines, they work at a strong wind speed.
“You’re going to double this turbine capacity, you are going to reduce the cost of electrons by about one -third and you are also going to increase the use of turbine by about 20 %.”
Radia is considered a unicorn startup as is Charge According to the pitchbok, more than $ 1 billion in US dollars. Employees and advisors Add Boeing, US Federal Aviation Administration and Executive of Renewable Energy Companies.
Radia has announced numerous partnerships with various aerospace companies to develop various aspects of aircraft such as body and wing. Lindstrom hopes that the manufacturing phase will begin later this year and said that Radia has begun accepting cargo supply orders.
Electricity consumption is increasing in North America, a part of which is due to population growth, the rise of industry electricity and data centers.
Space Solar co -CEO, Sam Edlin, presented a presentation in Serovik through C and P Global, an energy conference in Houston in Texas. (Kyle Backs/CBC)
Solar satellite
While Radia aims to take off by the end of this decade, Space Solar has a similar timeline to get away from the explosion.
The UK -based firm is engineering how to make solar array in orbit (using a robot for the assembly, no less). In this wireless period, electricity will be erected through high frequency radio waves for communities around the world.
“The sun always shines in space,”
The NASA vision of the 1970s hires a space shuttle for construction solar power satellite. (NASA/ESA)
The whole foundation is remote and out of this world, but if successful, the result may be available to the low, reliable, low carbon energy and to the most remote communities in the world.
Described to Edlen, this is the ultimate clean energy.
“Being able to transmit energy from space can be really important for the future,” he said. “This is not a science fiction. All physics are fully understood.”
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This concept has been going on for decades, including NASA’s technical feasibility in the 1970s. Study About space -based solar energy.
Edlan said the idea has now become economically possible because the cost of launching goods in space has fallen dramatically over the past decade.
Last year, Space Solar had signed an agreement with Iceland’s Richak Energy for the world’s first construction Operational Provide space solar power plant and 30 MW of electricity. Space Solar also contributed with the transfer labs, a private Iceland -based private sector organization focused on supporting climate technologies.
In 2023, the UK government Announced Universities and tech companies finance 3 4.3 million to promote space -based solar energy.
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Several other Startup and University Research Teams They are also pursuing solar power plants using various techniques.
Both Radia and Space Solar still have challenges to show their technology functions to promise at the right price, while also seeking all necessary approval from regulators.
These plans will also have to overcome the issue of opposition to the community
Large blades installed on long towers have an economic meaning, but can also be visible for more and more people.
The biggest question mark is a social license and social acceptance, “said Jenkins, a professor at Princeton University, who studied a study for Radia as an adviser to the AN. Interview With the Wall Street Journal.
Power plants in space using radio waves may face similar shock from communities.
“We have seen how 5G can cause problems, so in reality it needs to be very careful,” said Edler, citing the idea. Some have this technology is dangerousAlthough there is no evidence.
Over the past decades, solar and air industries have been expanded all over North America as costs have decreased and with each passing year, this technology becomes more efficient.
Now, if successful, these firms and other companies hope that in the coming years, their space will come up with age and high -rise ideas and re -imagine solar energy.
