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China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than 'all the oil on Earth' (www.livescience.com)
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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Presumably you'd separate it into smaller beams that only focus at the receiver, kinda like how holding up a magnifying glass to the sun doesn't fry everything between the magnifying glass and the target, just the target itself.

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh yeah that’s a good point, hadn’t thought of it like that. You could have distributed beam origins pointing towards one large receiver. Or multiple arrays but have them aimed at one receiver, etc.

[–] HumongousChungus@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

distributed beam origins pointing towards one large receiver

headlines are calling it the Death Star