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People promoting space-based solar invariably pick Rube Goldberg complex designs that will reliably fail. A big, very low-mass reflector concentrating sunlight
by moloch-hai 4y ago
People promoting space-based solar invariably pick Rube Goldberg complex designs that will reliably fail.
A big, very low-mass reflector concentrating sunlight on laser tubes tuned for various wavelengths found in sunlight, and beaming visible light at only solar intensity onto wavelength-matched solar PV farms on the ground, at night, would substitute for storage. Since the light intensity is no more than in sunshine, there is no danger.