They estimated that it would take less than 5,000 of these towers daily throughout the tropics to result in the moist static energy profile they observed.
Researchers measured the energy profiles of off-the-shelf image sensors and determined that existing technology would need to be about 100 times more energy-efficient for continuous vision to become commercially viable.
An inhomogeneous energy distribution in the laser beam profile gives rise to an inhomogeneous energy profile and angular energy distribution in the laser plume.