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Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by ed25519FUUU on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:52PM (#26675261)
How does one efficiency “beam down” gigawatts of energy? Or at all?
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Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by DennisP on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:36PM (#26675708)
Microwaves. Ground station has to be several square kilometers, but it's cheap and birds can fly through the beam without harm.

For economic reasons you pretty much have to use phased array transmitters, with a reference signal from the ground to make it coherent, so if the beam gets repointed it gets a lot more diffuse than that.

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Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by zdragnar on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:07PM (#26676008)
I've seen how this plays out in SimCity. No thank you!
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Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by cthalupa on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:59PM (#26675314)
Light. Focusing mirrors or lasers.

But as others have pointed out, why would you bother with building space based nuclear plants and then converting that energy to light when you could just use the sun?

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