I've wondered for ages if it might be possible to transfer energy as information. Consider a hypothetical setup in which two identical (possibly entangled) sys

I've wondered for ages if it might be possible to transfer energy as information. Consider a hypothetical setup in which two identical (possibly entangled) systems are run. On the sending side the system is observed and additional energy is spent in computation to compute interventions that would have (but did not) result in free energy. These interventions are then sent to the receiving side where the energy spent in computation on the sending side is partially recovered by actually performing those interventions and recovering free energy. If something like this or at least loosely analogous to it were possible then it would be possible to do something like put up a Dyson swarm in a close solar orbit around the sun and transmit back the energy not as dangerous and difficult to receive microwave beams but as data feeds containing an endless stream of "cheat codes" to obtain apparent (but not really) free energy at the receiving end. Energy is conserved because a given cheat code can only be used once to intervene where the sender determined an intervention would have worked. More energy must be spent at the sending side than is obtained at the receiving side. Given that there are environments like close solar orbit where energy is stupidly abundant, it could work very well even if the efficiency of transfer were terrible. Even if you only got say 1% of sent energy, a small-ish Dyson swarm in an orbit between the sun and Mercury could easily power the Earth, a Mars settlement, and a few hundred spacecraft with ion thrusters.