<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">O</span>n Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>Electricity from orbit? 7 space laser projects that aim to beam power to Earth.<br>From lasers to microwaves, these satellites aren’t just watching Earth – they’re trying to power it.<br>By Atharva Gosavi  Dec 18, 2025<br></i></font><div><font size="4"><i><br></i></font></div><div><font size="4"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><</span><a href="https://interestingengineering.com/space/space-laser-to-beam-electricity-to-earth" target="_blank">https://interestingengineering.com/space/space-laser-to-beam-electricity-to-earth</a><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">></span></i></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Over long distances<span class="gmail_default" style=""> i</span>t's much easier to transmit data than power, so if space-based power transmission to earth is economically viable (is it?) then it would make even more sense to have power satellites use their energy to run data centers that are<span class="gmail_default" style=""> also in space</span>. After all, these days running data centers is the economic<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>sector where energy usage is growing the fastest<span class="gmail_default" style="">, so why not build them where energy is the cheapest? </span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><b>John K Clark</b></span><br></font><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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