Our rival, LaserMotive, made a press release yesterday that they had kept a stalker UAV flying for 48 hours in a wind tunnel. This is great news for the technology of power beaming but it certainly steals some of our thunder.

 It is clear to me that they have been working on this for some time and the flight is not in response to our efforts. The one thing I do think is in response to us is the 48 hour timeframe.

So... Congratulations LaserMotive on a job well done! 

 Our response is that we are going to scale back the duration of our flight to something easier for us to manage. The 48 hours was making the venue and staffing a challenge and now there is little point in beating them by some negligible amount. 

Fundraising time!

We have set up a campain over at Indiegogo to raise funds for the record attempt. In order to keep bringing you the cutting edge in power beaming we need to figure out how to fund it. Crowdfunding is a new idea that is made possible by the Internet.

Click here  to go check it out. 

The Dawn of Laser Powered Flight

So after the games were over we were sitting here with all of this power beaming tech stuffed in my garage along with a network of friends, teammates and sponsors. It made sense to look to develop the near term applications for power beaming. So I am announcing a new direction for the KC Space Pirates. Laser Powered Flight. In order for wireless power beaming to develop to all it’s grand expectations it has to find and take the path with stepping stones from here to there.....

Check out the International Space Elevator Confernece. They will be doing a live presentation of our record attempt.