How Does Wireless Power Transmission Work?

[zoki85]

Spreading loss is always with us and using directive antennae only increases the gain in a particular direction.

Point is that distance is close enough so that spreading loss can be made small enough.

The fancy stuff with metamaterials presupposed you can stick the (equivalent of a) lens between transmitter and receiver and that presupposes that you have somewhere to mount it.

I am not familar with proposed use of metamaterials included anywhere in space between satellites and ground receiver.
Would you give us references?

"Special technology and methods" smacks a bit too much of Magic, rather than Engineering.

There are lot of papers published in per review journals about these technologies and their state of art. It's not magic, it can be done. Much bigger problems are very high price for installation, and question if the expense can be justifyed or not (personally, I don't so). OTOH, there are other very costly power energetic programs like ITER , which are much more important.