Well it seems that an experiment for beaming power back from Space could benefit from investment from the US in their Science drive investment. Read here.
Hopefully it will get going as beaming power sounds quite interesting although I do actually wonder how much will be lost in the transmission. Bearing in mind we can power the entire earth from a small area in the Mojave. Read here. It makes me wonder if we should invest too much in pulling energy from Space. It will be costly to build and maintain compared to a land based system. Any losses in transmission, if there are any, will be insignificant in the scheme of things. A ground based system will be cheaper all round and there will be no benefits for a Space based system for Earth while we can get all we need from an uninhabitable chunk of land. But the risk of something going wrong with the transmission of so much raw energy must be something to worry about.
Maybe Mars or something would benefit but not here.
Beaming power from Space
Well it seems that an experiment for beaming power back from Space could benefit from investment from the US in their Science drive investment. Read here.
Hopefully it will get going as beaming power sounds quite interesting although I do actually wonder how much will be lost in the transmission. Bearing in mind we can power the entire earth from a small area in the Mojave. Read here. It makes me wonder if we should invest too much in pulling energy from Space. It will be costly to build and maintain compared to a land based system. Any losses in transmission, if there are any, will be insignificant in the scheme of things. A ground based system will be cheaper all round and there will be no benefits for a Space based system for Earth while we can get all we need from an uninhabitable chunk of land. But the risk of something going wrong with the transmission of so much raw energy must be something to worry about.
Maybe Mars or something would benefit but not here.