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It doesn't even gather any additional energy, once you factor in transmission losses from the very inefficient long distance power beaming. Unless you're tryin
by mlindner 4y ago
It doesn't even gather any additional energy, once you factor in transmission losses from the very inefficient long distance power beaming.
Unless you're trying to build solar power north of the arctic circle I really don't see the need for such systems.
- XorNot 4y agoNo but it produces reliable solar power. Its never cloudy, and with the right alignment some part of it can always be in sun shine (do something with Lagrange halo orbits and a single installation can be continuously powered).
- Schroedingersat 4y agoJust burn the methane when it's cloudy and the batteries are flat instead of putting it in a rocket.
- formvoltron 4y ago
- mlindner 4y ago> Its never cloudy, and with the right alignment some part of it can always be in sun shine (do something with Lagrange halo orbits and a single installation can be continuously powered). If it's using visual/infrared lasers, it absolutely can be blocked by clouds. If it's using microwaves, it absolutely can still get weather fade during storms when it's trying to punch through a tremendous amount of water in the atmosphere. And if it's out at lagrange halo orbits, it's not going to be doing any power beaming at all, as that's much too far to be useful unless we're planning on building dishes that are hundreds (maybe thousands) of meters in size on both the receive and send points.