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Building structures on earth to collect sunlight is expensive due to need for maintenance, inefficient due to weather and day/night cycles and the transportprob
by Pica_soO 8y ago
Building structures on earth to collect sunlight is expensive due to need for maintenance, inefficient due to weather and day/night cycles and the transportproblem (no line of sight/ cables) and needs lots of land.
Spacebased power generation can get around that.
- ceejayoz 8y agoSpace stations are expensive to maintain, experience a day/night cycle in the sort of orbits you'd have to use, and can't have cables either...