Orbital solar is an incredibly stupid idea that just will not die. Even Elon Musk has been quite open about it being one of the stupidest ideas ever. You only

Orbital solar is an incredibly stupid idea that just will not die. Even Elon Musk has been quite open about it being one of the stupidest ideas ever. You only get about 3-4x (NOT 9x) of the power you'd get on earth in orbit, and putting things up there will always be expensive, even if it's finally coming down from NASA et al's comically high prices. No matter what kinds of launch cost improvements you predict (including, of course, Starship-likes), it will always be orders of magnitude cheaper to just build an array here on earth that is 3-4x larger than to lob anything into orbit. The Microwave/Laser power transmission schemes of orbital solar are also a huge problem, and in all likelihood would never make it through any kind of environmental impact study, much less an engineering effectiveness/reliability review. (Not to mention that, like the famous laser drive in Larry Niven's Man-Kzin wars, any laser/maser/microwave array that large is inherently a formidable weapon of mass destruction, with no modification other than repointing it....)