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| Oct 9, 2019 at 22:39 | comment | added | ShadoCat | @Geronimo, or, if you posit an in place space elevator, use really long wires. Bean the power to the elevator head and then transmit it though wires. That will keep you from roasting birds (note that the energy of the microwave beam wouldn't be dense enough to do that anyway). | |
| Sep 27, 2019 at 12:53 | comment | added | Geronimo | You can also bring energy back by using the space infrastructure to build and charge big batteries. | |
| Sep 26, 2019 at 20:50 | comment | added | ShadoCat | I mentioned beaming solar power back to Earth. There have been plans for decades for orbiting solar arrays that use microwave beams to receiving arrays on Earth. | |
| Sep 26, 2019 at 19:11 | comment | added | Morris The Cat | How do you 'bring back energy'? | |
| Sep 26, 2019 at 19:09 | history | answered | ShadoCat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |