Jehangir Dar

Last year, I was awarded the First prize at Creative Convergence Awards. Just after the award, I got a number of
phone calls from different organizations regarding the further implementation of my idea for which I was awarded by
DRICC. The award led me to get different acknowledgements and rewards from different institutions and hopefully it
is expected that this year I will get some grant for prototyping the same innovation, and all became possible because
of this award, I got last year from DRICC. Although, the prize money for third is much lesser than it should be but
the recognition and other related things one got from getting the award are more positive and energetic to change the
atmosphere around you to grow much quickly. Thanks, DRICC for recognizing me again.

Amity School of Applied Sciences, Amity University Haryana, Gurugram, Haryana, India.

Innovator at National Innovation Foundation Cell, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Innovator at Grassroot Innovation and Augmentation Network, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Space based Optical Transmission of Solar Energy: A New Approach to Beam-down Solar Energy from Space for Terrestrial use

Abstract

A new architecture to beam down solar light and distribute it to different regions for the terrestrial use on the host heavenly body is presented. The architecture consist Solar Concentration and Transmission Sub-system placed in geostationary orbit to concentrate the solar light using individually pointable thin optical elements, then using Secondary Solar Reflector to deflect the produced strong intense beam to the Solar Transmission Sub-system  that consists the two parallel thin Fresnel lens. The Solar Transmission Sub-system, after producing the strong convergent beam beams down it to the receiver located at the host body. The receiver is again a Fresnel lens that produces the parallel beam and transmits it to the Beam Splitter which splits the beam to a number of narrow beams and with the help of Beam Transmission and Diffuser System directs to different regions and gets diffused for the terrestrial use. A detailed mass budget of the space-oriented part Solar Concentration and Transmission Sub-system is defined. The description of the different elements of the architecture is pointed out and an end-to-end efficiency analysis is performed.