
Is space-based solar power realistic?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Solar Panels Are Getting Cheaper and Cheaper
We surveyed our listeners to hear what they thought about the prospect of having solar power come down from space. If you're excited to participate and hear your voice speculating baselessly in the future, please write to us two questions at daniel and hore dot com so here's what people had to say. I don't think we have enough matter in our solar system to make a dicen sphere, i think some things can be made of it. It would be a good idea to use solar panels outside of the earth because there's no clouds and then you'd have to get the power down to the surface. Is that too hard? Like we already have a very difficult engineering problem
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