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> 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 ca
by 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.