RE: Solar Power from Space? Caltech’s $100 Million Gambit - IEEE Spectrum

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Solar Power from Space? Caltech’s $100 Million Gambit - IEEE Spectrum

in hive-160342 •  3 years ago 

This work is moving forward at a fast pace but there are still many doubts about solar power generation in space for a number of reasons. Estimation efficiency of energy transport, More than 35,000 kilometers of geostationary from underground orbit, and the high cost of installing solar panels on satellites.

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Thanks for the reply. You're right that there are definitely challenges involved in deploying this technology, and they might even prove to be insurmountable. Renewable technologies have been moving in fits and starts for as long as I can remember.