{"id":119935,"date":"2021-02-24T20:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T04:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/cnn-exclusive-a-solar-panel-in-space-is-collecting-energy-that-could-one-day-be-beamed-to-anywhere-on-earth"},"modified":"2021-02-24T20:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T04:22:34","slug":"cnn-exclusive-a-solar-panel-in-space-is-collecting-energy-that-could-one-day-be-beamed-to-anywhere-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/cnn-exclusive-a-solar-panel-in-space-is-collecting-energy-that-could-one-day-be-beamed-to-anywhere-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"CNN exclusive: A solar panel in space is collecting energy that could one day be beamed to anywhere on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cnn-exclusive-a-solar-panel-in-space-is-collecting-energy-that-could-one-day-be-beamed-to-anywhere-on-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The unit has yet to actually send power directly back to Earth, but that technology has already been proven. If the project develops into huge kilometers-wide space solar antennae, it could beam microwaves that would then be converted into fuel-free electricity to any part of the planet at a moment\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists working for the Pentagon have successfully tested a solar panel the size of a pizza box in space, designed as a prototype for a future system to send electricity from space back to any point on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unit has yet to actually send power directly back to Earth, but that technology has already been proven. If the project develops into huge kilometers-wide space solar antennae, it could beam microwaves that would then be converted into fuel-free electricity to any part of the planet at a moment\u2019s notice. Scientists working for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1633,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-solar-power","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}