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A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

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Each megasat could then convert gigawatts of power into a microwave beam aimed precisely at a big field of receiving antennas on Earth. These rectennas would then convert the signal to usable DC electricity. Here I offer a road map of the potential chasms and dead ends that could doom a premature space solar project to failure.

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