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cybercuzco t1_ixo0933 wrote

Reply to comment by darkshark9 in China’s space station will run high-energy beam experiment for controversial solar power plant: chief scientist by Soupjoe5

Don’t forget you have to have some sort of beam focusing to make sure it hits the target right. If you can focus it a little you can focus it a lot. Instead of 1GW over a 1km^2 you get 1 he over 1m^2

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DividedContinuity t1_ixo5i77 wrote

And its still harmless. There are radio waves passing through us all the time.

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ale_93113 t1_ixpja4u wrote

It would be a microwave oven over your head and you would heat

Like, not like If it matters, since individual meter wide targets are impossible to aim from space

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DividedContinuity t1_ixprayi wrote

You know its a very specific frequency of microwave energy that is used in a microwave oven, all other frequencies are completely harmless. Even if that exact frequency was used, then in that case i doubt it would penetrate far through the atmosphere, there is a lot of water in the atmosphere you see.

Honestly, this sub ought to be renamed "scifi" rather than futurology for all the understanding of basic science that most of its members seem to have.

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ale_93113 t1_ixpstsv wrote

all radiation heats up... i study physics, the resonance frequency of water microwaves are just more efficient at that, but even gamma rays heat you up

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