Cross checking solutions to the beamed Microwave problem

I have run into this issue as well and have been
putting forth this solution. Please let me know it is
actually representative of something and not pure
fiction.

Being fully mindful of the disaster of public opinion
regarding nuclear power, I figured it was near
impossible to defend beaming gigawatts of microwaves
at any frequency to earth where it might impact the
health of people or wildlife. A quick check of the
globe yielded three other places that look a lot more
appealing namely the Sahara desert, Tibetan Plateau,
and floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
anchored to an island atoll. This gets completely
around the sensitivities of the Western governments in
regard to their territory and gets a revenue flow
started that will make the next step possible.

The next step to me was building a very large wall
around the receiver (some 50 km in diameter for a
satellite in GSO) that is high enough to prevent birds
or anything else from flying over it. This would
prevent any problems at higher energies due to bird
kill. Unfortunately you have to go to something like
10 feet off of the ground to do this completely but
nobody is likely to care in the Sahara if this is not
done immediately.

The last was to either lower the orbital height of the
satellites or increase the size of the receiver until
there was essentially no spillover of microwave
energy. Once you have a revenue stream and the
electricity to power metal production the cost of
building such structures comes down to reality pretty
fast.

- Thor Olson

Arthur P. Smith wrote,

"
the
last complaint that I never got around to responding
to was that the
whole scheme was impractical because the beamed
microwaves would swamp
out huge bands of Earth wireless telecommunication
capacity...
"

I don't have the background to be able to evaluate
whether or not that is
a legitimate concern. Does anyone care to enlighten
us on this topic?

Ron