Describe a beamed power solution. ( Digest Number 135)

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> Some additional thoughts...
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> Peak powerloads are at different times throughout the world

And they also vary with time of year and time of day.

> Most power generation techniques are most efficient producing energy at a
> constant rate

True for fossil fuels and nuclear, but not true for renewables.

This makes matching supply with demand even more complicated.

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> Thus this would allow power to be generated at the peak operating efficiency
> for the power plant, with the production facility located either remotely
> (so less concern about nuclear near a city... and the ability to harvest
> wind or geothermal where it is abundant...)
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And WHEN it is abundant. And WHEN and WHERE it is needed.

I can envisage a single orbital relay station feeding several
recetennas. The power to each recetenna is varied as demand rises and
falls. When averaged across an entire hemisphere, this could average
to be close to constant.