The seven preceding papers in this series specify Meridian as a complete architecture for wireless energy routing at building scale. They define the protocol stack, the deployment model, the security framework, and the unified energy-data fabric. They do not address generation or long-haul transmission — the two infrastructure layers that exist above the building mesh in the current energy system. The global electrical grid — a 4 trillion physical plant of transmission towers, high-voltage lines, substations, and distribution transformers — is the infrastructure layer most vulnerable to physical failure, most expensive to build and maintain, most constrained by right-of-way acquisition, and most exposed to both natural and adversarial disruption. I propose that this layer can be eliminated. I introduce a two-tier wireless energy architecture that closes the gap between energy generation and device delivery without any physical transmission infrastructure. Tier 1 — the long-haul beam layer — routes bulk energy from fusion generation hubs to district receiver arrays via directed microwave beams at 2. 45 GHz, operating over distances of 500 meters to 5 kilometers with projected collection efficiency of 75–85%. Tier 2 — the last-mile mesh layer — is the Meridian architecture specified in the preceding papers. I integrate this architecture with the Deterministic Fusion Control framework, providing a deterministically governed generation source whose output power can be adjusted in real time to track demand. I provide the Tier 1 safety architecture — retrodirective pilot-tone locking, exclusion zone enforcement, radar-based intruder detection, and hardware-enforced automatic shutoff. I present an honest system efficiency analysis: the full thermal-to-device efficiency is approximately 15–19%, compared to approximately 33–37% for conventional wired grid delivery from fusion generation. The arguments for the wireless architecture rest not on efficiency but on infrastructure elimination, resilience, deployment flexibility, and fully deterministic energy routing from generation to device. Keywords: wireless power transmission, fusion energy, directed energy, microwave power beaming, transmission line elimination, two-tier energy architecture, Fresnel-regime propagation, retrodirective beaming, deterministic infrastructure, Meridian Protected under U. S. Provisional Patent Application No. 64/032, 339, Filed April 7, 2026.
Ronald Jason Andrews (Mon,) studied this question.