Civilian and military researchers will look at applications for the technology amid concerns about radiation and the potential for beams misfired from space.
This seems like an incredibly inefficient way to generate power. It’s a cool engineering project, but it’s not going to generate more power than a solar farm on earth, no matter how cloudy it gets.
It can’t be used as a weapon either. The wavelength needs to be in the radio range to not be absorbed by the atmosphere, and it will spread out over a large area once it reaches earth.
This seems like an incredibly inefficient way to generate power. It’s a cool engineering project, but it’s not going to generate more power than a solar farm on earth, no matter how cloudy it gets.
It can’t be used as a weapon either. The wavelength needs to be in the radio range to not be absorbed by the atmosphere, and it will spread out over a large area once it reaches earth.