Beamed Power

>>>>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.>>>>

Let me put it this way. The coal burning power plant, where my father
works, produces power at a cost of about 2p (3UScents) per kw hour, on
average. The daytime rate, in the UK, is about 14USc/Kw-hr. Thats quite a
big increase and the only thing in-between those two values is utility
profit and transmission costs.

>>>Not gonna happen.
The minimum size for a useful rectenna is about 10 kilometres diameter.>>>

Wow!! Thats pushing 20,000 acres! Do any of the SPS concepts consider the
use of MASER's (microwave lasers) as power transmission devices? I can see
that the cost of setting up just one rectena is not likely to be trivial.

Tony

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