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Re:The Geomagnetic Storm Continues by shireboy on Monday April 24, 2023 @11:11AM (#35688604)
What a great anecdote. Makes me think of Tesla’s (the person not the company) vision of wireless power distribution through the air. Can’t we just put a big tesla coil in orbit and beam that down to power today’s “telegraph”
Re:The Geomagnetic Storm Continues by marcosdumay on Monday April 24, 2023 @04:16PM (#35692585)
Well, since you evidently never played SimCity 2000...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power

This is not a new idea, and we can do much better than powering a distributed network.