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CloudWatcher

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4. A last resort
Tue Jun 13, 2023, 02:50 AM
Jun 2023

Last edited Wed Jun 14, 2023, 07:41 AM - Edit history (1)

Color me over-the-top skeptical. From the horrific lost energy (5% end-to-end efficiency is quoted), to the political certainty of everyone not-in-control assuming it's a weapon, the idea that this is viable source of clean energy is crazy. People are afraid of 5G and WiFi, they're not going to be happy being subject to something that could actually fry them if the engineers get it wrong (or a malevolent agent gets control).

But ... I'm neither a microwave engineer nor a PR person. Maybe it could be engineered to be totally safe, regardless of the accidental (or intentional) misuse of the system.

Joke: I wonder how the power beamed from space would compare to waste energy from all our existing cell towers. Perhaps I should get a grant to study making giant antennas to collect all that free energy

A few of the pros and cons

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Very. cachukis Jun 2023 #1
Yes, please let's aim a huge ass microwave beam at earth Effete Snob Jun 2023 #2
I'm guessing BWdem4life Jun 2023 #3
A last resort CloudWatcher Jun 2023 #4
I remember reading of this possibility decades ago SCantiGOP Jun 2023 #5
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