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What's the best case wireless energy transfer efficiency that anyone is expecting with current technology, or with technology that reasonably assumed to be atta
by elihu 4y ago
What's the best case wireless energy transfer efficiency that anyone is expecting with current technology, or with technology that reasonably assumed to be attainable in the near future?
- DennisP 4y agoAccording to The Case for Space Solar Power, 40% overall efficiency with the technology at the time it was written (about a decade ago), with a theoretical maximum of 60%. This was with microwaves from a phased array transmitter and a reference signal from the ground target, and the satellite in geostationary.