Recently, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced that it has partnered with several private Japanese companies to develop and deploy a network of solar panels in space. While this hopefully won’t turn out to be another space mirror, given the rise in humanity’s energy consumption it’s worth a try. Japan, having few domestic energy resources, [...]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Storage and Transmission, Science, Space, Technology 
Tags: JAXA, solar panels, space, space solar power system 
2 Comments »If we’re ever going to be a “green” society, energy conservation has to occur on both the macro and micro scales. Both the largest factories and smallest apartments must operate with concern for even the most minuscule amounts of wasted energy. Similarly, energy must be derived not only from large power centers, but also at [...]
New TechClickers may not realize how excited wireless power news makes us. We were stoked even when the Wireless Power Consortium changed its logo! So needless to say, Sony’s announcement today that it’s sustainably sending 60W of power over 20 inches of empty air has the TechClicker office abuzz. Sony is using the relatively common magnetic resonance [...]
If there is one potentially societal changing technology being actively developed, it is wireless power transmission. Nothing else, if properly implemented, could so drastically change the way we live our lives. Electric or hydrogen powered cars may change what propels us when we drive, but they don’t fundamentally change the way we drive. OLED or [...]
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