Artery of fire

It was, quite simply, the most phenomenal engineering feat ever accomplished by man. It was called the "Artery". It piped power from distant Pluto all the way to an impoverished Earth, and success of the Artery project was life itself to its creator, Norman Bayerd. However, now the same politicians and scientists who had opposed all along were there to bedevil him yet again. But even worse than that was the sabotage that threw off the Artery's beam...