Selling Sunlight: The truth behind US firm’s sci-fi plan of providing sunlight after dark

Reflect Orbital, a California start-up, is selling what seems to be an impossible idea: sunlight and energy after dark. According to the company’s website, Nowack spent years diving into hundreds of technical projects before starting Reflect Orbital to train for the day when the right idea came along. Image Courtesy: Reflect Orbital Sunlight on demand — the viral claim Reflect Orbital aims to provide sunlight directly to one’s location through an app. In April, he introduced this revolutionary idea at the International Conference on Energy from Space conference in London, saying, “We want to make it as easy as possible — like, log into a website, tell us your GPS coordinates and we get you some sunlight after dark.” And now, the idea has been put down on paper with the company’s website showing what the service would look like. Reflectal Orbit is developing space mirrors designed to reflect sunlight onto solar panels during nighttime hours, aiming to boost the efficiency of solar farms.