{"id":150819,"date":"2022-11-22T16:26:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-esa-aims-to-make-24-7-space-based-solar-energy-harvesting-a-reality"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:26:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:26:37","slug":"the-esa-aims-to-make-24-7-space-based-solar-energy-harvesting-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-esa-aims-to-make-24-7-space-based-solar-energy-harvesting-a-reality","title":{"rendered":"The ESA aims to make 24\/7 space-based solar energy harvesting a reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-esa-aims-to-make-24-7-space-based-solar-energy-harvesting-a-reality2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Solaris program will study space-based solar power amid rising energy concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to approve a three-year study to determine whether sending huge solar farms into space could effectively meet the world\u2019s energy demands, a report from the BBC reveals.<\/p>\n<p>So, if all goes to plan, the technology could one day harvest massive amounts of energy from space \u2014 enough to power millions of homes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>ESA \/ A. Treuer.<\/p>\n<p>A space-based solar power plant would be launched into a geostationary orbit, meaning it would orbit in a fixed location over the Earth that would be hit by the Sun 24\/7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solaris program will study space-based solar power amid rising energy concerns. The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to approve a three-year study to determine whether sending huge solar farms into space could effectively meet the world\u2019s energy demands, a report from the BBC reveals. So, if all goes to plan, the technology could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150819","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}