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every time somebody starts talking about power plants i go back to the seeds of my liberal poisoning ----- sim city 2000

anyways, i choose the microwave plant so i can do really sick tricks on my deck in that massive dish

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[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

It's a rectenna for collecting space based solar power beamed to earth via microwave

[-] antmzo220@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago
[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 5 points 22 hours ago

It's not really obvious to anyone who hasn't heard of the concept

[-] antmzo220@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Hmph, imagine not knowing about rectenna for collecting space based solar power beamed to earth via microwave

[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Is this actually what a 'microwave' would be in this context? I don't know about this kind of stuff so not sure if this is a joke

[-] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 day ago

It would be transfered via microwaves, that is, EM waves with micrometer frequencies.

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/SOLARIS/Space-Based_Solar_Power_overview

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