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Scientists beam solar power to Earth from space for first time ever (www.space.com)

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[–] sol 2 points 2 years ago

Dyson swarm when?

[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair 2 points 2 years ago

Sweet, earth will have it's own Dyson sphere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The thing I want to know about this is what the efficiencies are like.

I mean they only went a foot or so, but how much power? What was the loss, did it meet expectations? Inverse square law is a butch, is that going to cause issues here?

What about atmospheric conditions?

So many questions, almost no details. :(