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Planet's surface is easy. From geostationary, a microwave beam footprint will be several square miles. Birds could fly through the beam without harm. The groun
by DennisP 4y ago
Planet's surface is easy. From geostationary, a microwave beam footprint will be several square miles. Birds could fly through the beam without harm.
The ground station is mostly antenna wire so it's still not a major cost.
- moffkalast 4y agoHmm I hadn't considered microwaves, that sounds like it would actually be super doable.
- pfdietz 4y agoIt was the original concept. The problem is the minimum size is quite large, in the gigawatt range if the powersat is in geostationary orbit.