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I feel like it's far easier just to transmit it 1000 miles or so from a sunnier place.
by rileyphone 8y ago
I feel like it's far easier just to transmit it 1000 miles or so from a sunnier place.
- nine_k 8y agoNot necessarily, because 1000 miles of a transmission line is a lot of metal, land, construction, and electricity losses. Unfortunately, a power station at 100-200 miles above Earth, where sunshine is eternal, and which is relatively accessible, will not stay above the same spot, and GEO is way high (22k miles) and thus even more expensive to build at (and already pretty crowded nevertheless).