This seems to assume that you have the ground area on Earth for the panels. That's true where Musk is working in the US, but not for many smaller countries. Of

This seems to assume that you have the ground area on Earth for the panels. That's true where Musk is working in the US, but not for many smaller countries. Of course I guess it that for those countries it would still be easier to put the panels somewhere else and build out the connection infrastructure than to put it in space.