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A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

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The accelerating buildout of solar farms on Earth is already hitting speed bumps, including public pushback against the large tracts of land required and a ballooning backlog of requests for new transmission lines and grid connections. The energy sent Earthward by the craft was too meager to power a lightbulb, but it was progress nonetheless.

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