Legendary inventor Nikola Tesla\u2019s dream of transmitting electricity wirelessly never became a reality on Earth.<\/p>\n
But more than a century later, Chinese scientists believe the concept could find its first practical application on the moon<\/a>.Their proposal focuses on the moon\u2019s south pole, where crater rims receive near-continuous sunlight while permanently shadowed regions nearby \u2013 believed to contain valuable \u201cwater ice<\/a>\u201d, or frozen water trapped on or beneath the lunar surface \u2013 remain in perpetual darkness.<\/p>\n Instead of relying on long cables or heavy batteries, future lunar rovers exploring these craters could receive power through laser beams transmitted from solar-powered stations positioned on nearby sunlit peaks, according to researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n The team outlined an optimised deployment strategy for such a lunar laser power transmission network in a peer-reviewed paper published in the Journal of Deep Space Exploration.<\/p>\n The race for the moon\u2019s south pole: can China beat Nasa\u2019s 2028 deadline?<\/p>\n The Harbin Institute scientists behind the study are also affiliated with the National Key Laboratory of Laser Spatial Information and the National Key Laboratory of Aerospace Mechanism, research institutes strategically critical to China\u2019s aerospace advancement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary inventor Nikola Tesla\u2019s dream of transmitting electricity wirelessly never became a reality on Earth. But more than…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":930797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[121778,375327,74,234979,375329,994,916,375326,375328,364809,159,234986,67,132,68,88194],"class_list":["post-930796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-artemis-programme","tag-change-missions","tag-china","tag-harbin-institute-of-technology","tag-journal-of-deep-space-exploration","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-national-key-laboratory-of-aerospace-mechanism","tag-national-key-laboratory-of-laser-spatial-information","tag-nikola-tesla","tag-science","tag-shackleton-crater","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-water-ice"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116909593727210730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}