This is too breathless, too credulous, and it damages the value of the article.

The record for beamed power seems to be dozens of watts, transmitted over a hundred miles.

But we need gigawatts transmitted over tens of thousands of miles.

You gloss over the logistics and expense of sending large, fragile solar panels into space and then keeping them working.

And also the weird last paragraph where you misused "begging the question"! You ask a question that you know the answer to and pretend you don't - no, no one's going to let China capture all of a new source of energy and sell it to the rest of us.

But also, there is nothing particularly radical or ground-breaking about these new technologies, particularly since they are also completely unproven and quite likely to need serious changes, so I don't see why China would have the lock on this.

Finally, claiming it would take "a few years, maybe even a decade" before this is an energy solution shows an irrational optimism that's hard to take seriously, given all we have is Earth-based prototypes.

Solar power in space has a 65-year history. We have seen steady, gradual progress over that whole time, to the point that two decades ago, we installed a 160kW solar power generator on the ISS, at the cost of half a billion dollars. The world uses about 15TW of power, so this is one hundred millionth of the world's generated power.

To be even a candidate to help solving the world's energy issues, you'd need to scale that up a million times, and solve the power broadcast problem, and that only gets you about 1% of the world's total power use.

Sorry, no claps. Please show a little bit of skepticism: I find articles like this depressing after reading them for 50 years on solar, space satellites, and of course fusion, while in the real world, we continue to burn more fossil fuel every year.