Yet again, you raised the base premise as if it were some sneaky hidden thing and made the first accusation. Now you're trying to rewrite the entire conversatio

Yet again, you raised the base premise as if it were some sneaky hidden thing and made the first accusation. Now you're trying to rewrite the entire conversation so that it was somehow relevant or productive. This on top of me explicitly saying the economics of the problem are probably terrible. Only an idiot or someone acting in bad faith or both would say "Aha! You need a beam with n megawatts to receive a beam with n megawatts!" Of course you do. That same solar array exists in the syn fuel scenario too (except 3-10x bigger and on the ground). Raising it as if you found a gotchya is not just disingenuous but also incredibly stupid.