[WOSG]

uh, you can do all that on earth!

Even cheaper is plain old nuclear power.

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"uh, you can do all that on earth!

Even cheaper is plain old nuclear power."

True, you could put your orbital mirrors in GEO and focus them somewhere, but it would lose clarity in the atmosphere and really screw up weather patterns from the intense heat of sunlight from perhaps a hundred sq. kilometers of sunlight focused at one point.

And yeah, nuclear will be the fuel of choice to begin with. But everybody loves to hate nuclear, and if we really want to use solar power, that was just my 2 cents, rather than pv.