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Space Lasers Are About to Get Their First Real Test Generating Energy

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By Brian Kahn Verified
| WIRED Magazine Verified
Google, SpaceX, and a host of startups are all planning to build data centers in space. But for those plans to work, they’ll need power. Lots of it. Star Catcher, a startup based in Jacksonville, Florida, aims to provide it by concentrating the sun’s energy and using lasers to beam it to satellites’ waiting solar panels. The company is preparing to launch its prototype system aboard a SpaceX rocket this week that will transmit energy to another satellite in orbit.
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Space Lasers Are About to Get Their First Real Test Generating Energy

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By Brian Kahn Verified
| Tech News Tube
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France Had Never Seen a “Fire Cloud” Until This Month’s Record-Smashing Blazes

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By Brian Kahn Verified
| Mother Jones Verified
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Firefighters in France are confronting a phenomenon never seen in the region before: fire clouds. It’s a sign of the intensity of the blazes burning—and how climate change is upping the odds that they appear. A wave of fires has swept over France and Spain, sending hundreds of thousands fleeing.
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