“Not if the beaming is done at a fixed point.”
All forms of electromagnetic waves of energy are, in terms of passing in the atmosphere, are affected by, and have direction affected by, the absorption and scattering effects of the atmosphere.
The only manmade form that escapes that, imperfectly and for limited distances, is very powerful (using very much energy to produce) intense laser beams. You can expect about 10 miles of visible distance on green 200mW+ lasers and 1,000mW+ blue lasers. And there will even at those powers be some diffusion of the beam; and its questionable that solar arrays can power such lasers, and even if they could the energy loss in the energy conversion - from solar to laser than laser to electricity will be a wasteful energy process.
I doubt you can create a “reciever” for most of the known possible beams of energy to act enough as a magnet to “draw” an energy beam towards it, and without the scattering and diffusion of the energy in its passage through the atmosphere, which will greatly limit the effectiveness of the process as far as energy produced at the solar array verses energy recieved at some “collection point”.
That’s why I say it should be done at a high altitude, to limit the diffusion. I’m not talking Sears Tower high, but Mount Everest high or higher. At any rate, it’s worth experimenting to learn its limits, even if nothing comes of it. Rather than “beaming it” down to earth, there might be some sort of a disposable cannister to bring a fully charged battery down to earth with the collected power, or some sort of an alternative. But dammit, there is unfiltered, untapped power out there, and we should make the effort!
Global warming is bullsh!t, but the wars, oppression and never-ending atrocities committed in the name of obtaining energy cannot be tolerated forever.
There must be an alternative. Nik Tesla was right about that. Unfortunately, his notes on how to just collect and transmit it through the air were either burnt or stolen, or are under lock in key in either Croatia or the NSC. This is an alternative worth looking into if ever there was one. And if that doesn’t work, there are others to investigate. That’s what science is supposed to be about.