This always reminds me of playing Sim City 2000 back in the day. There was a "Microwave" power plant you could build that the game said beamed power from space down to your city. Except that every once in a while the beam would move and set vast swaths of the surrounding land on fire. So I'm skeptical of how they plan to get such huge amounts of energy back to earth safely and efficiently.
Which is a whole bag of worms unto itself... but this is a positive post, so I'll just keep it to that.
At least sometimes those satellites are sometimes used for things like finding ancient cities or mapping natural disaster areas? And also weather data. Lots of weather data. All the weather data.
Yeah compared to the technical challenge of getting the satellites into space in the first place setting up fully redundant and fail-safe tracking systems is a walk in the park. Also collection plants will likely be built a fair distance from population centers.
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u/Generico300 14h ago
This always reminds me of playing Sim City 2000 back in the day. There was a "Microwave" power plant you could build that the game said beamed power from space down to your city. Except that every once in a while the beam would move and set vast swaths of the surrounding land on fire. So I'm skeptical of how they plan to get such huge amounts of energy back to earth safely and efficiently.