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Seems like some of the bad parts of terrestrial solar (fighting atmospheric conditions, wind loading, etc) without the good parts of orbital solar (once you're
by idiotsecant 4y ago
Seems like some of the bad parts of terrestrial solar (fighting atmospheric conditions, wind loading, etc) without the good parts of orbital solar (once you're in orbit, staying there is relatively easy and you have very little in the way of mechanical stresses for your solar array, so you can make it really huge). I might not be thinking about it hard enough.