Describe a beamed power solution. ( Digest Number 135)

Unfortunately it is unclear from the diagram at

http://www.permanent.com/p-sps-tc.htm

whether the 88% energy efficiency of collection accounts for loss due to the
angle of the collector.

My guess is that it does. (The ground collector would assumably have the
same power loss problem so it would have been a significant error in the
diagram to not to have factored it in...) However without going to the
source data used or asking Mark Pardo, we don't know.

Tom M.
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