Transmit electricity to the Earth

[Mohit Pandey]

I want to transmit electricty produced in space to the Earth. Is there any method to do that? Please suggest a method.

[Mercedes Benzene]

I cannot really think of anything.
This topic has been discussed in a number of threads here at hypography.
I suggest doing a search...
...You should be able to find something!

[ronthepon]

Just to help you ut, I'll put up some of the ideas I had seen posted.

1- Beam the energy down to earth via direct electromagnetic radiation.

2- Pack the energy in batteries and send the charged batteries down.

3- Have the energy source and reciepent connected mechanically, and use some method (like wires)

They have various merits and demerits. Go on with the search Mercedes Benzene mentioned.

[UncleAl]

I want to transmit electricty produced in space to the Earth. Is there any method to do that? Please suggest a method.

100 TeV pulsed linear accelerator. Point it groundward at a step-down transformer. Aint nobody gonna stiff you on the monthly billing. Generating station charge balance is left as an exercise for the alert reader.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by UncleAl

100 TeV pulsed linear accelerator. Point it groundward at a step-down transformer. Aint nobody gonna stiff you on the monthly billing. Generating station charge balance is left as an exercise for the alert reader.

Exercise position assumed (taken?). Usually I hear microwaves, so a pulsed linear accelerator in space is new to me.
Commence exercising: Is it appropriate first to ask whether the linear accelerator is of the electron, proton or ion design?

Whether or not, I think if charge balance refers to the efficiency then there is little loss & anyone in the vicinity of the transformer is toast?

[UncleAl]

A mole of electrons is 96,500 coulombs. If you are "beaming" electricity down to the Earth, what compemsates the growing positive charge of the beamer?

A few acres of ground rectennna is insanity. Do you think the ionosphere and magnetosphere won't have a say in it? The van Allen belts? What of birds that fly through the beam? Hint: "microwave oven."

[KickAssClown]

Your talking Tesla Ideology. A giant lightning bolt from the heavens... god I would hate to think what happens to the windows nearby when that first gets turned on.

The eiffel tower and similar constructs would seem ideal for collection, though perhaps we could modernize these types of architecture... I'm fairly sure I heard something about a tower of sometype, to collect power I believe it is, being built in australia.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by UncleAl

A mole of electrons is 96,500 coulombs. If you are "beaming" electricity down to the Earth, what compemsates the growing positive charge of the beamer?

A few acres of ground rectennna is insanity. Do you think the ionosphere and magnetosphere won't have a say in it? The van Allen belts? What of birds that fly through the beam? Hint: "microwave oven."

I knew there had to be a wry element to the fry element. The ol' technically possible, but don't try this anywhere!
Electrons it will be then & I imagined a rather spectacular aurora in any case. A few acres you say? WOW
Here's the scenario: At Thanksgiving, gits will gather at the periphery of the rectenna & cast their tom turkeys with ballista across the beam while their families wait to catch them cooked in nets on the other side.

[KickAssClown]

That would be a massively deafening thunderstorm. It would be like Manna pouring from the heavens, biblical in purportion... not to mention the no fly zone.

Where exactly do you purpose this catching station to be?

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by UncleAl

A mole of electrons is 96,500 coulombs. If you are "beaming" electricity down to the Earth, what compemsates the growing positive charge of the beamer?

Not to mention that any energy intercepted in space is energy that otherwise would not reach Earth. Energy is conserved; Earth will heat up.