Reply to post: Re: Quick maths

8 years ago another billionaire ploughed millions into space to harvest solar power and beam it back down to Earth

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Re: Quick maths

* 1 satellite yields 1 gigawatt

* ...

* transmission beam is 60 feet wide, so we'll assume that's a diameter on a cylindrical beam

If I've got the sums right that's about 350kW per square foot.

I don't think that's going to fly.

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