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This seems like an incredibly inefficient way to generate power. It's a cool engineering project, but it's not going to generate more power than a solar farm on earth, no matter how cloudy it gets.
It can't be used as a weapon either. The wavelength needs to be in the radio range to not be absorbed by the atmosphere, and it will spread out over a large area once it reaches earth.