Agreed. My first thought as well. And it’d be interesting years later to study cancer rates of people living near the receiving end.
Or frying birds, or humans who wander into the path of the beam..
I think this is similar to an idea floated in the energy “starved” 80’s .
Big solar arrays in space...transmitting electrical power by microwave to the earth based receiving stations, and being converted to ‘lectricity.
You think being near the receiving end of laser light causes cancer? Okaaaay.