Wireless transmission does not make power infrastructure effortless. Energy sent through the atmosphere suffers conversion and path losses, so the source must generate more than the receiver uses. An orbital microwave system also creates a concentrated beam whose misdirection could become a severe industrial accident even without a hostile actor. A cable may be inelegant, though it confines the energy to a known route and avoids many atmospheric losses. Technical possibility alone does not make a system efficient or safe to operate.
Notable Point · 1:52:00-1:57:08
Wireless power carries efficiency and safety costs
A laser discussion broadens into a warning that long-range wireless power is physically possible but loses energy and creates serious control, liability, and accident problems.