[Red Badger]

transmit microwave at a frequency of 5.8 GHz to Earth via a 1.0 square kilometer antenna.

Birds will explode in just a second.......................

[bobbo666]

More bad tech.

How about a cloud — H2O is what heats up in a micro oven. Will this frequency do the same?

Aaaaaan, what happens when the satellite transmitter is hacked and aimed elsewhere?

Love the idea of developing the tech. But, implementation is gonna be as bad as Solyndra.

[GenXPolymath]

“transmit microwave at a frequency of 5.8 GHz to Earth via a 1.0 square kilometer antenna.
Birds will explode in just a second.......................”

2 gigawatts is 2 billion watts spread over a receiving antenna that’s 4000 meters wide is only 156 watts per square meter of surface area the beam diverges from GEO orbit four times its width of the 1000 meter transmitter.

Sunlight is 1000 watts per square meter on the earth’s surface. Birds won’t even warm up at night in the beam barely.