We are talking about the same thing Omar. I am working on some models containing characteristics of actual manufacturer panels at the moment with typical figures of around 300 Watts in maximum sun. It is enough, if we have enough land.
On transmitting power, I know this has been a holy grail for a long time, but doing it practically with Even MW of power accross the distance from geostationary satellites to Earth is a huge challenge. Imagine the power electronics that would be needed to drive such beasts, and imagine the damage any of them would do if a beam was to waiver even slightly off-target. Also any aircraft that strayed into a beam would be instant toast. It would be a horrendous weapon in the wrong hands.
On Austrian Economics, it is normally an instrument wielded by investors to argue that money can't be issued without being balanced by production.
I never really liked that argument, because instinctively we know there should be no such thing as poor people in the modern world, and traditional "jobs" are rapidly disappearing, whilst the rich are making no signs of donating money to anyone, and no government seems to be able to tax them. So we need a UBI which is independent of any existing "Stash".
The answer is in seeing that the Joules arriving from the sun are convertible to actual hydrogen fuel via electrolysis, even if it is at a small rate, it is much more rapid than the time it took nature to create oil, so I am sure we can use it, but further, whether or not the fuel is created, the power itself is valuable product which is being added to the existing capital of Earth.
So, by the same instrument as the rich like to beat us with, Austrian Economics, there should be money constantly issued for free, to all people, to reflect the valuable donated physical product coming from the sun.
I've written about the basic principles in my stories around "Kardashev Engineering", "Kardashev Money", and "the Money-Fuel Tree".
Some other related stories are the "Bitcoin Kardashev Hinge", and "The ICO of all ICOs".
I agree it can be tricky finding a simple guide to Austrian Economics, the best one I've found is https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/austrian-school-of-economics.asp
There is a paragraph that reads as follows: "The Austrian school believes any increase in the money supply not supported by an increase in the production of goods and services leads to an increase in prices"
So we should deduce that if there is an increase in product, money should be issued.
The economic aspect of the climate issue is a very deep rabbit hole, in which we find bullshit jobs (RE David Graeber), and bullshit industries, all deeply entrenched in fossil fuel usage,.
When we look at it with clear Systems Engineering Eyes, we realise that all financial debt is actually an energy deficit with our planet, which can only be paid back down by accepting energy from the only actual source of it, the sun, and by doing so we will vastly reduce our power requirements, as it takes an awful lot less energy to farly supply a united humanity, who are not worried about our financial future, therefore no need to do bullshit industries, jobs, or even any kind of crime, it seems to me.
By rights, the banks should be issuing money for that too, as they are arguably to blame for the error.
it is amazing how many folk still try to apply EROI to deduce the business case for solar. It simply can't be applied in the case that solar energy is used to expand / replicate its own collection infrastructure.
EROI seems to me to be one of the main "Hooks" of deception that keep us locked into thinking solar can never be practical.
I will probably write an article on that soon, if no-one beats me to it :)
I think we are on the same page in general, solar is the only way out, fusion is pie in the sky, literally, a big yellow ball right there, shining down on us.
What we need is for folk to see it as a big mains socket, that we need to plug into.
