> You could also say that space based solar makes total sense "if you can do it, it's just a really hard engineering problem" The thing is that while they are

> You could also say that space based solar makes total sense "if you can do it, it's just a really hard engineering problem" The thing is that while they are both really hard engineering problems, space solar (which includes energy transmission via lasers) is also a massive ongoing logistics and coordination problem. Solar power without wireless transmission makes a lot of sense the closer you get to the sun and in the inner solar system it almost certainly makes more sense than fusion but once you get to the asteroid belt or further out, inverse square law would suggest that it quickly becomes infeasible.