Rectenna vs photovoltaic mass/power ratio?

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Rectenna vs photovoltaic mass/power ratio?

# 6822 byian.woollard@... on Sept. 30, 2005, 12:38 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

On 9/29/05, dsw_s wrote:
>
> Cool. I wonder whether it's been proposed before. It seems as
> though everything I think of always has.

Well this is the same idea, except interstellar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starwisp

(115g acceleration, for a few *days*!)

-Ian Woollard