Describe a beamed power solution. ( Digest Number 135)

See

http://www.google.com/search?q=Criswell+microwave+reflectors&hl=en&safe=off

has many of the relevant links

here is a list of Criswells papers

http://ilewg.jsc.nasa.gov/ILEWG/register/criswell_papers.html

And here is another relevant link

http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/power_from_space_for_the_next_century.sht
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it mentions that Angelini has proposed what we've proposed in has paper

Arnaldo M Angelini, 1988, "On the Possibility of Intercontinental Power
Transmission via Satellite", Space Power, Vol. 7, No. 2

Tom M.
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