So what you're proposing is: - Gather a whole shitload of power on-orbit - Build a massive fleet of power-shunting satellites - Deliver all of that down to t

So what you're proposing is: - Gather a whole shitload of power on-orbit - Build a massive fleet of power-shunting satellites - Deliver all of that down to the ground I think you may have watched too many James Bond movies. What seems to be missing is consideration of what happens to all that 'lost' power. In their test, they sent 91kW, and received 1.6kW, over a distance of 1km. That missing power doesn't just up and disappear, it's heating the air and water between it. You'd have to scale this up, massively -- I'm not good enough at the math or physics, but I can't imagine it gets any easier at longer distances. So what you're really describing is a death-beam that even if you don't cook the people on the ground, is going to be dumping huge amounts of heat into the atmosphere.