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Originally Posted by DGthe3
Well, I'm not too sure about the science of microwave power, but I know enough of the pieces to give it a shot. Getting a satalite to stay in place over a single spot is easy. Its called geosynchronous orbit and communication and GPS satellites rely on this. Lasers are extremely efficient at sending energy from one point to another so an extremely high percentage of energy sent will be recieved, approaching 100%. Microwaves also have the interesting property of heating water extremely well, look at a microwave oven. And heating water is the main way to produce power. Thats how nuclear, coal, oil, biomass, natural gas, and some types of solar and geothermal work. So all of the basic concepts seem to be valid with few obvious draw backs.
And using electro-magnetism to deflect radiated heat? Hmm, I guess it could work. Radiated heat is electromagnetic waves (infrared light). So it should be possible to influence them with EM.
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Sweet! Okay here is what we do then. Build the microwave plants now, and then when fusion comes on line, use the microwave plants to power the hypothetical magnets that are going to be needed to produce all the mangetic crap to contain the reaction. Using indirect fusion power to create fusion power... ahh scientific irony *sigh*.