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Re:A Skeptic's Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space by throw9474 on Friday May 10, 2024 @03:41PM (#40323061)
Yes the safety is absurdly bad https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power#Safety
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Re:A Skeptic's Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space by dirkt on Saturday May 11, 2024 @04:27AM (#40326817)
Which sort of leads itself to military usage...

And Wikipedia is only talking about humans, not about electronics, which are much more sensitive to microwaves. Want to fry the enemy's electronics? Just focus that "civilian" microwave transmitter with a few GW power tightly on where you want it to be.

I am really surprised nobody talks about this whenver space-based power transmission is mentioned.

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Re:A Skeptic's Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space by throw9474 on Saturday May 11, 2024 @11:49AM (#40328846)
If you trace the money, every researcher working on space based power is getting money from DoD.
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