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China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than 'all the oil on Earth' (www.livescience.com)
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[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'd love to see what amount of that energy they expect to get back to earth as for what I understand is the the efficiencies for sending energy back like this is atrocious.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Even if it's an absurdly low % of energy collected, guess what, it's constant and practically infinite on a human timescale

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Then they can just buld a bigger one. For free energy it is worth scrapping a few cruse ships worth of steel. The savings on decreased lung cancer would more than pay for it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

NASA has already done research on efficiency, cost etc

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