In 1941, two astronauts began the seemingly impossible feat of training a robot to operate a solar energy station in space, one capable of beaming power across the Solar System. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Of course, this was purely fiction – the dystopian plot of sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov’s short story ‘Reason’. However, less than two decades later, real-life scientists started to wonder whether renewables really could be deployed in outer space. Last year, researchers at King’s College