It was inevitable that one (if not a few) posts in our ongoing Speculative Design series would consider a project over at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)- the pioneer GOAT organization in the history of large-scale speculative design projects.

Explore with us DARPA’s Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program, which “aims to create a revolutionary power distribution network through the design and demonstration of airborne optical energy relays.”