{"id":28938,"date":"2016-08-15T03:46:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T10:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/japan-firm-marks-one-small-step-for-solar-energy-in-space"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:24:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:24:55","slug":"japan-firm-marks-one-small-step-for-solar-energy-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/japan-firm-marks-one-small-step-for-solar-energy-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Japan firm marks one small step for solar energy in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-firm-marks-one-small-step-for-solar-energy-in-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A major Japanese machinery company said Friday that it has succeeded in transmitting energy wirelessly, marking a step toward making solar power generation in space a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said it used <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microwave+technology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microwave technology<\/a> to send 10 kilowatts of power\u2014enough to run a set of conventional kitchen appliances\u2014through the air to a receiver 500 metres (1,640 feet) away.<\/p>\n<p>Wireless power transmission is currently under development as the core technology to tap the vast amount of solar energy available in space and use it on Earth.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-03-japan-firm-small-solar-energy.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015&#45;03-japan-firm-small-solar-energy.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major Japanese machinery company said Friday that it has succeeded in transmitting energy wirelessly, marking a step toward making solar power generation in space a reality. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said it used microwave technology to send 10 kilowatts of power\u2014enough to run a set of conventional kitchen appliances\u2014through the air to a receiver 500 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28938","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\/28938","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66577,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28938\/revisions\/66577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}