For this to be remotely efficient, transmitting the energy needs to be less wasteful than letting the light travel a bit longer to the ground. I don't really se

For this to be remotely efficient, transmitting the energy needs to be less wasteful than letting the light travel a bit longer to the ground. I don't really see how that's possible. The article mentions current transmissions lose 50% of the energy... And that the receiving stations take up a lot of real estate. Why not use that real estate for solar panels on the ground..? Even if you could utilize the sunlight 24 hours a day (which is not always possible according to the article), perhaps building more solar stations on the ground can be distributed so that that it's always sunny at all times?