This seems like such a stupid boondoggle. Loved this quote: "I can relax assumptions all day," Handmer wrote. "I can grant 100 percent transmission efficiency,

This seems like such a stupid boondoggle. Loved this quote: "I can relax assumptions all day," Handmer wrote. "I can grant 100 percent transmission efficiency, $10/kg orbital launch costs, complete development and procurement cost parity, and a crippling land shortage on Earth. Even then, space-based solar power still won’t be able to compete. I can grant a post-scarcity fully automated luxury communist space economy with self-replicating robots processing asteroids into solar panels, and even then people will still prefer to have solar panels on their roof."