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It's also infinitly easier to get 24/7 unadulterated sunlight for your solar panels.
by BurningFrog 8mo ago
It's also infinitly easier to get 24/7 unadulterated sunlight for your solar panels.
- dantillberg 8mo agoNot 24/7 in low earth orbit, but perhaps at an earth-moon or earth-sun L4/L5 lagrange point. Though with higher latency to earth.
- BurningFrog 8mo agoThere are Sun-Synchronous Orbits, and those are what SpaceX plans to use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit
- dantillberg 8mo agoWell, that's neat. TIL. Thanks for the link!
- fodkodrasz 8mo agoSo what? Why is it important to have 24/7 solar, that you cannot have on the ground? On the ground level you have fossil fuels. I wonder if you were thinking about muh emissions for a chemical rocket launched piece of machinery containing many toxic metals to be burnt up in the air in 3-5 years... It doesn't sound more environmentally friendly.
- BurningFrog 8mo agoGetting enough energy for your AI data centers is one of the most limiting factors for AI technology. Solar in space is about 5-10x as effective as solar on the ground.
- fodkodrasz 8mo agoSo what? Just build some nuclear power plants if AI data centers are so important. It can even work at night when it is infinitely as effective as solar on the ground! Also I'm astounded how important AI data centers are when we are running out of freshwater, to mention a thing we could easily solve with focusing our efforts on it instead of this. But yeah, surely the Space AI Data Centers (aka. "SkyNet") is the most important we must build... Also this is just about Elon jumping the shark...