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They had this in SimCity 2000. You'd build these microwave receivers in your city and the orbital solar power stations would beam it down to you. Very clean and
by chongli 4y ago
They had this in SimCity 2000. You'd build these microwave receivers in your city and the orbital solar power stations would beam it down to you. Very clean and convenient. But occasionally the satellite would drift out of alignment and fry part of your city with what you would basically describe as an ultra-high-powered MASER.
- XorNot 4y agoPractical designs of this sort of system don't use anything that concentrated - the idea is to build receiver arrays over farmland, since the microwave receivers are really just an array of towers with loops of wire suspended from them. The on-the-ground RF intensity even in the middle of the rectenna would be low - not "advisable to stay in low" but you wouldn't suffer any ill-effects if you strayed in there accidentally for a while while.