The power gets converted to microwaves and then is beamed to the ground and then, on ground, it gets converted into electricity.
We did a feasibility “study” of this at Raytheon about forty years ago. It seemed ... impractical ... Actually screwball. I believe our system beamed power down to a remote desert area in the Southwest. Now photovoltaics have come down considerably in price since 1984, but not nearly that much.
I wonder if the total energy generated would ever exceed the energy generated by the fuel to orbit the array.
But it would be “Green”. I say it’s a death ray to fry Kim.
Gott a be a lot of loss in those conversions
There is power required to convert it to microwaves and beam it to the ground, then power loss converting it from microwaves to electricity. And then should it be assumed that no power is lost in the transmission through the atmosphere regardless of weather? Don’t think so. Total power losses are not going to be negligible, I suspect.