Asimov’s vision of harvesting solar power from space could become a reality
It ’s an idea direct out of skill fable : A space station orbits around Earth , harvesting energy from the sun and glow it down to our planet . Isaac Asimov popularized the concept in his 1941 storyReason , and futurists have been dreaming about it ever since . But this notion is more than just an unfounded phantasy — it ’s a highly hard-nosed concept being pursued by space agencies across the world , and it ’s almost within reach of current technologies ....