Researchers working for the U.S. military are examining a way to send power without wires. This will speed up the rate at which energy can be sent to frontline military support.

The troops are especially a long way from power infrastructure. The researchers are working on a programme called Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER).

The goal of the programme is to design and test airborne optical energy relays. These transmissions will be part of a dynamic, adaptable, wireless energy that moves at the speed of light.

Key facts!

• Experts on the project say that this is like the internet for energy.
• This is because it uses reliable, multipath networks to move energy from places with lots of energy to places with little energy.
• Energy problems are a cause of concern for the military.
• For example, a lot of the time, the force has to work in places that are a long way from established energy infrastructure.
• So, they have to depend on liquid fuels, which are hard to get.
• At the moment, military systems can deliver weapons over a long distance, for a long time, or in large amounts.
• These must be big enough to hold the amount of liquid fuel needed to complete a mission.
• But when wireless power transfer networks came along, these platforms would turn into conduits.
• The ideas behind power beaming are the same as the ideas behind wireless communication.
• The POWER initiative will make power-beaming relays that work well.
• These, in turn, would reroute transmissions of optical energy while maximising beam quality at each stop along the way.
• This would allow energy to be harvested only when it was needed.
• The government said that they think the wireless energy web will make the next energy revolution possible.
• It will cut down on travel times by a lot and provide reliable energy to people in the air, on land, on the sea, under the sea, and in space.

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