Stephen Sweeney features in Times of India Article
Monday 7 November 2011
Stephen Sweeney tells Aaditi Isaac about a new space platform that will capture solar energy and use lasers to beam it back to earth
A team from the University of Surrey, led by Stephen Sweeney, professor of physics and head of photonics, is working in partnership with a space technology organisation, EADS-Astrium to create a space platform that uses lasers to beam solar energy back.
“It's the stuff of science fiction — space platforms using lasers to beam solar energy back to Earth — but the reality of a solar powered satellite system has become much closer. Over time, the technology has the potential to be a long-term and major source of clean and inexhaustible energy," says Sweeney.
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