{"id":1397,"date":"2010-06-17T00:05:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T06:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2010-06-17T00:06:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T06:06:09","slug":"lasermotive-gets-some-new-sponsors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"LaserMotive gets some new sponsors&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/LaserMotiveLogo.jpg\" width=\"151\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"56\"  \/>Just a case of the rich getting richer&#8230;\u00a0 Team LaserMotive, winners of a cool $900K in last year&#8217;s Climber \/ Power-Beaming portion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorgames.org\" target=\"_blank\">Space Elevator Games<\/a>, has acquired some new sponsors in its attempts to collect the remaining $1.1M in the NASA-provided prize pool.<\/p>\n<p>This is detailed on their <a href=\"http:\/\/lasermotive.com\/2010\/06\/15\/team-lasermotive-announces-new-sponsors\/\" target=\"_blank\">latest blog posting<\/a> on their website.\u00a0 Money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe\u2019re pleased to announce these industry partners as sponsors of Team LaserMotive as we prepare to enter the next round of the Power Beaming Competition in 2010,\u201d said Tom Nugent, president and co-founder of LaserMotive. \u201cLaser power beaming \u2014 the wireless transfer of energy from one location to another using laser light \u2014 offers tremendous potential to businesses in a wide variety of industries, ranging from alternative energy to unmanned aerial vehicles. Not only do we believe that the sponsorships will enhance the development of our entry for this year\u2019s Competition, but the technology developed can be used to further practical applications for laser power beaming, both near and long term.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is just going to make them an even more fearsome competitor in the upcoming competition.\u00a0 Congratulations again to LaserMotive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a case of the rich getting richer&#8230;\u00a0 Team LaserMotive, winners of a cool $900K in last year&#8217;s Climber \/ Power-Beaming portion of the Space Elevator Games, has acquired some new sponsors in its attempts to collect the remaining $1.1M in the NASA-provided prize pool. This is detailed on their latest blog posting on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}