Beamed Power

>
> factor in the cost of 10's of thousands of Km of transmission lines,
> substations, transformers and local distribution networks, the cost per
> kilowatt can go up by a factor of 3 or more. In effect, the generation
> costs become almost irrelevant.
>

What is a number ? I need X US dollars per megawatt per kilometre...

And if possible I need typical range of costs (max and min)
corresponding to difficulty of terrain.

> It would be great if an SPS could function in a similar way. Small towns
> and cities could be fed electric power by small football pitch sized
> rectena. Even if the capital cost of the power increased by a factor of 2,

Not gonna happen.

The minimum size for a useful rectenna is about 10 kilometres diameter.

Best sites for recetennas are farmland, where they can co-exist with
crops and livestock.

Or else lakes and deserts.