“DARPA’s aim is not to bring electricity to homes but to deliver energy to places where it would prove difficult, expensive, or dangerous to reach with grid infrastructure or fuel or battery shipments.”
DARPA’s Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) power-beaming initiative was recently featured on IEEE’s website, featuring insight from Paul Jaffe, an electronics engineer who leads the POWER program.
Check out the full press release on IEEE.org.