Scientists in China have demonstrated a wireless power transmission system that uses a ground-based microwave emitter to beam energy to an antenna array mounted on the aircraft’s underside. Importantly, they were able to do this while both the drone and charging system were in motion.
In tests, the car-mounted system kept fixed-wing drones in the air for up to 3.1 hours at an altitude of 15 metres (49 feet). The key challenge that the team overcame was maintaining alignment between the emitter and the drone during flight, wrote Song Liwei, the project’s leader.
That makes no sense. It’s the wrong frequency to cook anything.
JFC…is US STEM education really this bad? Lemmy seems to struggle between STEM and Star Trek.
No Idea, never went to.school in USA. They haven’t cooked anyone while sending them to the moon so can’t be that bad.
I’m sorry, you know the precise frequency that would be used by a fictional/speculative ‘microwave’ beam emmitted from an orbiting solar array?
You… don’t think that ‘microwave’ might be technically innacurate, but broadly colloquially understood term, to describe the broad concept?
Like maybe a ‘phaser’ weapon, or a ‘lightsaber’?