Comments on: Space energy startup Star Catcher successfully tests power beaming using lasers https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/space-energy-startup-star-catcher-successfully-tests-power-beaming-using-lasers/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:49:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/space-energy-startup-star-catcher-successfully-tests-power-beaming-using-lasers/#comment-1625562 Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:49:03 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=118842#comment-1625562 Power from motion
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-soft-hybrid-material-motion-power.html

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/space-energy-startup-star-catcher-successfully-tests-power-beaming-using-lasers/#comment-1625042 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 04:29:12 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=118842#comment-1625042 Laser tech
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-photonic-chips-passively-laser-multiple.html

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/solid-state-laser-news.9380/page-36

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/space-energy-startup-star-catcher-successfully-tests-power-beaming-using-lasers/#comment-1624901 Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:20:30 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=118842#comment-1624901 Optical levitation…small to large
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/levitating-disks-could-open-new-window-earths-upper-atmosphere

Lightcraft
https://www.cgpublishing.com/Books/lightcraft.html

From Concordia University
“Light powered micromotors can move through air”

Also do a search for “Reactor Grade Fusion Plasma.”

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/space-energy-startup-star-catcher-successfully-tests-power-beaming-using-lasers/#comment-1624843 Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:42:33 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=118842#comment-1624843 Initial small-scale application of this technology at relatively short ranges will pave the way for larger and larger applications at greater and greater distances. By the next century, I would expect to see giant solar collectors in heliocentric polar orbits beaming gigawatts of energy to human habitations in the outer solar system.

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