Could Solar Satellites Be the Key to Infinite Energy?

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2. How's this for a SciFi plot...

Some kind of political upheaval on earth leaves countries unable to maintain these power satellites, and over time their orbits drift and concentrated beams of microwave energy that were supposed to beam down onto collectors in the desert now sweep across the landscape.

Alerts are issued for cities that need to be evacuated ahead of the coming beam, which will leave nothing behind but a fine ash where the city used to be. Mankind again must turn to the nomadic way of life to keep on the move avoiding the killer beams from the dozens of out-of-control satellites orbiting the planet.

No matter where you go you are never a more than a few days away from having the spot where you stand bombarded by killers rays from space. Eventually the whole planet is scoured bare and in order to survive we must build shelter zones under special screens that block the radiation.

At some point somebody remembers that there is such a thing as unintended consequences.