Describe a beamed power solution. ( Digest Number 135)

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# 15193 byCharles Radley on June 27, 2001, 10:43 a.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

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> Don't forget this would only apply to earth-orbit-earth applications,
> and 37% isn't awful if you have really cheap electricity. Cars are only

But the problem is the space segment.

For these kinds of dissipation levels, the radiators required would
weigh several times more than the rest of the spacecraft combined, and
would blow away any hope of viability.

CR.