How wireless energy from space could power everything | Ali Hajimiri

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🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Modern life runs on wireless technology. What if the energy powering our devices could also be transmitted without wires? Electrical engineer Ali Hajimiri explains the principles behind wireless energy transfer and shares his far-out vision for launching flexible solar panels into space in order to collect sunlight, convert it to electrical power and then beam it down to Earth. Learn how this technology could power everything -- and light up our world from space.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
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0:13.6	Can we democratize energy access?
0:16.8	That'd be a game changer.
0:18.4	And space solar power experimenter Ali Hajimiri is working on it.
0:23.2	In his Ted 2023 talk, he introduces his army of antennas and the power they could potentially
0:29.3	spark all over the world after the break.
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