steren’s Twitter Archive—№ 7,124

UK considering a solar power station in space. Satellite would be 1.7km wide, 2,000 tons and $21B theconversation.com/a-solar-power-station-in-space-heres-how-it-would-work-and-the-benefits-it-could-bring-179344 When I last did the math, I arrived to the same numbers: observablehq.com/@steren/space-to-earth-solar-energy Cost is between 2x and 4x a nuclear power plant, so I dropped the idea.