Reply #6: Solar Power Satellites were a wet dream of my SF days

[GliderGuider]

Huge solar thermal arrays in geosynchronous orbit, running generators that would feel large diameter microwave beams of very low power density, that would be beamed down to huge rectenna farms in deserts on Earth. Straight from the pages of Amazing and Galaxy magazines.

Unfortunately the economics suck, the logistics suck, and we now lack the capacity or time to implement such a scheme even if we did trust the people who'd be running it.

Such plans are now a sandbox for men trying to carve a new career empire out of the American Taxpayer.

Fugeddaboudit.