[The Shootist]

I'm not going to write 5496 words on the subject but I do have this to say.

Nuclear is a short-term and ultimately messy power source.

We should invest in low cost to orbit launch technologies and build Solar Power Stations in Earth orbit. We have the technology to do this NOW. It is only a matter of engineering.

Beam the power down to receivers via microwaves and have all the non-polluting electricity we will ever need.

[hinckley buzzard]

Worth noting, this advertisement was produced and paid for by the nuclear energy industry, not an impartial organization.

For example, the information about natural gas processing as just changing the location of the release of CO2 into the atmosphere, is false.

Looks like the nuclear power industry still can't just be honest and trust the public with the virtues of nuclear power for what they are. I'm pro-nuke, but I wish they'd quit lying when they don't even have to--these PR abortions remind me of clinton.

[maro]

As a boy, I read a book that espoused the same strategy. Several years ago, my law firm employed a physics Ph.D. as a patent lawyer. I asked him whether this microwave-beaming would work; he snorted "no." Any other physicists out there who care to explain yea or nay on this idea?

[Boiler Plate]

Shootist,

How much energy do think can be transmitted through radio signal? Have you actually asked any antenna designers if this can done?

Regards,
Boiler Plate