Space-based solar power

Continuous solar collection and wireless power transmission, and the numbers that decide it.

Scope

• The energy case: continuous illumination, no atmosphere
• Wireless power transmission by microwave or laser
• Rectenna sizing and beam safety
• Mass, launch cost and the break-even analysis
• Current demonstration programs

Notes

Nothing written here yet. Working notes go in Research and Learning Lab; anything that becomes durable is promoted onto this page.

References

To be added as the topic is worked through.