(CNN) – Scientists working for the Pentagon tried to build a solar panel of a pizza box in the space, designed as a prototype of a future system for sending electricity from the space to any point in the world.
The panel, known as the Photovoltaic Radio Frequency Antenna Module (PRAM), was launched in early May 2020, connected to the Pentagon’s X-37B triple drone to test solar light and convert to electricity. The drone flew to the Earth every 90 minutes.
The continuous radio frequency frequency antenna photovoltaic module (PRAM) is located inside the thermal vacuum chamber during tests at the EE.UU Naval Investigation Laboratory. of Washington.
The panel is designed to maximize the light in space, which does not attract the atmosphere and, for that matter, retains the energy of the azure evils, which has the most powerful power than solar light to the Earth. The blue light diffuses to enter the atmosphere, because the sky appears blue.
“We are getting a solar light addition in the space alone,” said Paul Jaffe, co-developer of the project.
The ultimate test shows that the 12 × 12 Pulgad panel is capable of producing 10 energy vials for transmission, Jaffe told CNN. It is enough to eat one tablet.
Chris Depuma (izquierda), Brinda orientation on the PRAM in Washington, October 10, 2019.
But the project has unveiled a series of panels of panels and, if amplified, its success could revolutionize the way in which energy is generated and distributed remotely from around the world. Podría contributes to a new redesign of the great de la Tierra, dijo Jaffe.
“Some visions have a solar space equivalent to superior to the larger current energy plants (gigabytes), which are sufficient for a city,” he said.
The unit has not directly sent energy to Tierra, but this technology has been tested. If the project is equipped with huge solar antennas that have special kilometers of anchorage, it can emit microwaves that can be converted into electricity without combustion to any part of the planet at any given moment.
“The only thing that holds solar energy satellites any more than a source of energy is global transmission,” said Jaffe. “Can send energy to Chicago and a fraction of the second, if necessary, send it to London or Brazil”.
But a key factor that must be tried, dijo Jaffe, is economic viability. “Build hardware for space and space,” he said. «Y esos [costos] están, in the last 10 years, finally starting to bajar ».
There are some construction projects in the area. “In Tierra, we have this difficult pregnancy, which is because we keep things in our place, but there is a problem when we start building very large things, which we have to support our own weight,” said Jaffe.
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The mission of the special aircraft X-37B of EE.UU. is wrapped in secrecy, since the PRAM experiment is one of the detailed details of its proposal. In January, Jaffe and PRAM co-leader Chris DePuma will publish the first results of their experiments in IEEE Journal of Microwaves, which shows that “the experiment is working”, says Jaffe.
The project has been funded and developed by the Pentagon, the Major Operational Capacity Fund (OECIF) and the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington.
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The temperature at which the PRAM works is key. The most expensive electronic devices are the most efficient, said Jaffe, and its ability to generate energy is degrading to the point that it is hot. The ground-breaking orbit of the X-37B means that it takes approximately 90 minutes of each cycle in the dark and, for that matter, during the holidays.
Any future version of the PRAM could be placed in a geosynchronous orbit, which means that a bulge will move approximately one day, in which case the device will be mainly in the light of the Sun, and there will be many more layers of the Earth.
The experiment uses calendars to treat the PRAM to a cooler temperature and constant to test if a series is efficient and is stored at 36,000 kilometers from the Tierra.
Function. “The next logical step is to escalate to a larger area that collects more solar light, which heats up more in microondas,” said Jaffe.
The thermal vacancy chamber that will allow the PRAM to be tested in special conditions in the laboratory on October 9, 2019.
More so, scientists tend to try the regenerative energy level in Tierra. The Sabrian panels exactly need to send the microscopes, and do not accidentally disassemble the equivocated objective, using a technique called “retro-directive control”. This is a pilot signal from the destination antenna in the Tierra to the panels in the space.
The micro-ray fields are transmitted only once the signal is received by the pilot, which means that the receptor is intact and list. The microwaves, which are easily converted into electricity in Tierra, can be sent to any point on the planet with a receptor, Dijo Jaffe.
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También dissipó cualquier temor futuro que los malos actors pudieran usar la technology for creating a giant space laser. The antenna is needed to direct the energy to create a large-scale destructive ray that is notorious in the months or months in which it is assembled. “Extremely difficult series, if not impossible”, that is, to convert solar energy into an army from space.
DePuma says that the technology, if available, offers immediate applications in natural disasters when the normal infrastructure is disrupted. “My family lives in Texas and all of them live without electricity at the moment in the middle of a free holiday because the red is overcharged,” said DePuma.
“In fact, if there is a system like this, I will redirect some energy to all, and I will have to pay attention to it in my new home.”