What about birds and other aerial objects that pass through this “tight beam”? Isn’t that something like getting stuffed in a microwave oven?
And you though windmill generation stations were bad for the birds....
Before satellite TV was widely used, there used to be TV microwave signal transmission towers set up as relays across wide parts of the US, but that system was quickly abandoned with the advent of digital TV transmission, which can be done over optic cables buried in the ground.
AT&T once had a whole network spanning much of the US.
https://www.wired.com/2015/03/spencer-harding-the-long-lines/
Retired AT&T engineer built this site years ago. Great pics & info.
long-lines.net