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I may be incorrect, but space based solar would catch energy that would reach the earth anyway, basically shading us. So it would probably be more or less addi
by riffraff 7y ago
I may be incorrect, but space based solar would catch energy that would reach the earth anyway, basically shading us.
So it would probably be more or less adding the same energy, but sending it to the ground rather than dispersing some in the stratosphere.
- pfdietz 7y agoThat's incorrect, sorry.
- riffraff 7y agook, but can you explain why, please?
- pfdietz 7y agoThe satellites would be in wide orbits (typically imagined to be geostationary) that would almost never be on the line between the Sun and the Earth. And if they were between the Sun and Earth, they couldn't beam power to the Earth's night side.