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> Save for power transmission Isn't that the entire point? Putting solar panels in space has been done regularly the 1950s.
by LarryMullins 4y ago
> Save for power transmission
Isn't that the entire point? Putting solar panels in space has been done regularly the 1950s.
- JumpCrisscross 4y agoI meant that I don't see a near-term use terrestrial use case for better microwave power transmission.
- LarryMullins 4y agoMaybe you could use microwave power transmission (from the ground) to power atmospheric pseudo-satellites, but practical applications seem dubious.
- ben_w 4y agoDrones. Electric aircraft in general, recharging continuously in-flight. Might be ill-advised for a whole mass of reasons that I, as a software engineer, know naught of; but it would be a use case.