Re:Airplanes that fly on electricity debut at Fresno’s Chand...
by gruturo on Friday April 20, 2018 @04:45AM
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Not in any meaningful way with just the sun's light hitting the panels.
On the other hands, if you were to beam a few hundred kilowatts by (carefully!!) aiming at the panels with a massive laser, you could power it this way, yes.
Bonus if you are doing it from a satellite: you can power a plane even across an ocean and don't need many ground stations. On the other hand you just built an orbital death ray so expect protests from, well, everybody.
On the other hands, if you were to beam a few hundred kilowatts by (carefully!!) aiming at the panels with a massive laser, you could power it this way, yes.
Bonus if you are doing it from a satellite: you can power a plane even across an ocean and don't need many ground stations. On the other hand you just built an orbital death ray so expect protests from, well, everybody.