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| ▲ | brd529 an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Overview energy has done interesting work in this area. |
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| ▲ | mlindner 44 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's always better to generate electricity on the ground than attempt to beam it to the ground from space. The efficiency loss of beamed power is huge. |
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| ▲ | amluto 32 minutes ago | parent [-] | | The efficiency loss of nighttime is approximately 100% if we’re talking about solar energy. At least at a most basic level, it’s not totally absurd to stick some kind of power beaming contraption in space where it is mostly not shadowed by the Earth and beam power to a ground station. | | |
| ▲ | hdjrudni 15 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Is that more or less absurd than making deals with our neighbours to share their electricity? Build some solar farms around the planet and then distribute it over wire. I honestly don't know the answer. I know there's some efficiency loss running over long wires too but I don't know what's more realistic. |
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| ▲ | mkull 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Why would you transfer the energy to earth? The energy powers ai compute = $ |
