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| Feb 5, 2017 at 20:26 | comment | added | ReneSac | Are you sure? It is very difficult to get more than 5 times the solar irradiance to a plane from laser, because you need to cool the photovoltaic cells in the plane. See: rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR898.html . I was crunching some numbers, and for something equivalent to a current airliner, you want at least one order of magnitude more power density than that. Something like 100 times more than solar power. | |
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| Nov 26, 2016 at 14:16 | history | answered | randomwhatever | CC BY-SA 3.0 |