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Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation
Space is one of those frontiers, like the seabed beneath retreating polar ice, where you might expect international flexing over resources. You wouldn’t be wrong. But where innovation is at play, there’s also an opportunity for collaborative work that could ultimately benefit humankind. Jason Thomson reports today on efforts to harvest solar energy from Earth’s orbit and beam it down for use.
