This is genius! Go europe 🇳🇱🤝🇪🇺

Not only you talk about the first megasteucture of mankind, one that will starkly sign human endeavour, wellbeing and prosperity for a clean, new future (more than setting foot on Mars), but you also give it the name of my favourite book, you rascals.

What an impressive idea! Very close to a science-fiction novel, for sure. Also, what a challenge! I hope it could work out and be beneficial for everybody. Good luck!

What is the efficiency of wireless energy transfer over that distance and what are the side effects of having terrawatts of radiation going through our atmosphere?

That reusable rocket looks sick!

Go ahead ESA ❤️

The idea has been around in science fiction since 1941 and the US department of energy and NASA were allocated $50 million to study it in the late 70s and 80s. So there is plenty of research to build upon already for this.

This is so cool, I hope this will become a reality

Perhaps the most fun solar install project to be a part of!

This idea might be very challenging but definenetely not impossible. Once we completed this solar farm in nspace we have a technology that can serve us for several centuries and. We need to do this, no matter how much it costs and what the politicians say.

I want this!

LET's GO !

Hi ESA; great video upload. I hope it'll work in near future. Nice consept, all the best to you. :--)

This idea is a perennial favourite with people who study Physics past age 12. At about the same time they discover what can be done to ants on a sunny day with a magnifying glass, but don't make the link... Europe needs an innate sustainability revolution and to shift its attention from future-mortgaging megaprojects that 'see their investors out'. This would be great if the extra-terrestrial energy is utilised in space.

this is awesome! ❤🚀💪🏽

This technology would be in direct competition with fusion power. And, considering the most recent developments in rocket science, it might become commercially available before fusion.

I am doubtful that this is going to work out, but if it secures more funding for ESA I am all for it.

What?! This is AMAZING!

What ESA- and NASA and JAXA- are lacking, is an intelligent, focused R&D program to answer the needed technology issues related to Space Based Solar Power (SBSP) by, say, a certain date; so that, with that data in hand, society- and the companies that would have to actually make things work, including making them economic- actually have hard data on which to base their decisions. The US has fallen down on the job- for decades- because of bureaucracy: NASA insists that, since this is an ‘energy’ issue, that DOE/Department of Energy should take the lead (including in spending the funds to figure the above out); DOE says it’s a ‘space’ issue, so NASA should take the lead….so for decades, with these two NON-leaders in charge, absolutely no progress has been made in even assessing things. (And in the past year, I retired from NASA after 46 years…..). We DO need some (intelligent, forward-looking) leadership on this subject- for Earth’s sake. Today, the ESA Director-General may think he’s providing that. But…..if I understand correctly, the R&D program he will later be proposing, does NOT include the necessary steps to truly get Europe off of its collective ass to also, say, bring reusable vehicle systems into existence sooner, rather than later. They are over a decade - more - behind the Americans, with no serious attempt to, well, get more serious; yet the above video is absolutely correct: WITHOUT truly operational, cost-effective RLVs that can fly frequently, this whole subject can’t even exist. IF the ESA DG uses his upcoming proposal to at least get Europe off- dead center on space based solar power R&D, that’s only step one; then he needs to help bring in the Americans and Japanese off of THEIR collective asses to bring THEIR already existing strengths to the fore. NO SINGLE SPACE ENTITY ON EARTH CAN ACCOMPLISH THIS GOAL. - Dave Huntsman

🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺❤️👍 go Europe 🚀☀️

Amazing!

Even after fully converting to all electric, we should still maintain gas, hydro, gravity etc as backups. In case of a major solar flare or atomic event, it would take months or even years to roll out the whole infrastructure again, with, needless to say, huge loss of life and chaos in the meantime.

Great video !

Fantástico! As gerações futuras com o avanço tecnológico vão ter uma vida bem melhor.... Tem algum estudo para criar uma proteção artificial contra os raios nocivos solar e cósmico?

Grande projecto desafiante...O poder do Sol é enorme e investir nesta fonte de energia é fundamental e os benefícios são imensos!! A ciência e a tecnologia ao serviço da procura de soluções que são essenciais para a vida!! Impressionante numa ambição salutar e quando acontecer há muitos motivos para festejar!!

Incredible! Ive been reading a book from the 1970's called Colonies in Space, by T. A. Heppenheimer and they talk about this idea back then for the 1990's. Of course in their prediction it would have required that it was a manned outpost, as they didn't foresee robotic advances, About time this idea was taken seriously.

This Great idea because our climate is in a very dangerous situation.

One of the basic elements of global warming is the solar energy that is kept on the Earth because of certain gases in the atmosphere. I have seen solutions for global warming in which scientists are trying to reflect sunlight on the surface of the Earth and even trying to place mirrors in space. This project will do the opposite and bring extra solar energy, which wouldn't reach the Earth otherwise. One small project wouldn't do much, but there is a LOT of space out there to put these panels. Don't get me wrong, i am a big proponent for the energy transition, but we need to keep a good energy balance on our planet. This project could have a future to power other celestial bodies. An other concern about Solaris is the use as a weapon when the energy is transmitted in a narrow beam.

It's amazing to think, that the future of energy generation is a giant solar potatoe chip in space.

It's really good way to solve energy issue. But I think you make some system to prevent electromagnetic damage to people.

1:13 that solar module looks like the chair of my office😂😂😂

Solaris is an idea toyed with from earlier this year. Are we going to see any positive action, or at least anyone doing anything about it?

How do you transfer energy without the load losses associated with a wireless transmission?

Excellento 💕💕💐💐

Love these science fiction programmes

😍😍😍

How do you Transmitter energy wireless ? I know how a Transformator works … primary circuit creates a magnetic field , that brings the electrons on the secondary circuit to move and you have „Transmitted“ wireless power …. Or Induction . But how do you want to get it from space to earth ?

What would be the effect of transmitting concentrated heat on the climate? Assuming you're transmitting microwaves, it's going to have a heating effect on the atmosphere as it transits through. Given the scale, what effect will this heat have on the climate change locally?

It time to step on the next level of civilization scale. World knowledge and resources must be concentrated for higher goals.Such project could be used for laser propulsion of sail spaceships.

Just make sure when you park it in orbit that you place it between earth and the sun, that way we can reduce the amount of solar energy hitting earth by a tiny amount to counter the global warming effects. Like a solar dimmer switch or putting sun glasses on the planet.

Been around for decades. However, tech not yet ready and people do nit want microwave beams always on.

So it seems energy production is a temporary problem but energy distribution will always be a problem. No comments I have read think this source is not the long-term answer, is this 10 years or 50 years before actual use?

Weurope GOATed

greenhouse gases and burning fossiles change the planets' balance ... so will "adding energy from outer atmosphere" I guess ...

Si el James Webb ya ha recibido impactos en 1 mes de funcionamiento la realidad es que algo tan grande va a recibir tantos impactos de micrometeoros que en 1 año será irreparable

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Isn't it possible that these concentrated, high-energy microwaves could be used as a weapon?

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I am just waiting for someone like thunderf00t to completely shut down the idea.

Subhanallah🤗

question. what if there was a rocket base on the moon ? where would it go. of the moon look like the earth. and the earth looked liked the mooon. would people on the moon going to earth ?

Great idea but will probably take a long time let's hope solar panels down on earth and wind power are in use until they can get it working,time is running out

Won't happen without reusable rockets.

Smaller disonspehre

Also die Rechnung möchte ich sehen wie ihr es hinbekommt das Ökonomisch, Ökolögisch und Effizienz besser sind als jedes System auf der Erde. Dann noch die Zusätzliche Energie/Strahlung die auf die Erde kommt welche Auswirkungen die hat in der Atmosphäre. Eine militärische Stromversorgung macht noch Sinn oder als Katastrophenhilfe aber das ist dann alles andere als Öko....

Yeah sure "not science fiction". Why don't they tell us then which technologies they plan to use to transport energy wirelessly? I think this will be way beyond humanity's capabilities, even for the entire century.

I bet the astronomers are already worrying. Shall we pollute space even more?

Eff le EU