7,641,193 Trillion Btu / 3412 Btu per kWH = 2,239 Trillion kWH
= 2,239 Million MegaWH
= 2,239 Thousand GigaWH
= 2,239 TerraWH
I think they are still way off.
But not a single satellite but a continuous band of solar arrays circling the earth? Maybe 275,000 km in total length? That would get closer, with shadows and angle of incidence you would have probably a 1/3 the available power of a continuous flat array. I think they are still way off.
Oops, Terra Watt years, not Terra Watt hours.
Okay, it is in the ball park.
Thanks for the information about what they intended to build, I didn’t catch that.
So theoritically possible. I wonder how many times greater than the World’s GDP would be the cost of building such a structure. Pretty tough to calculate since the scale of the project would make meaningless most of the cost values we could find.
The NASA doc seems to back up their theory. At the very least, we have a neat new weapon to keep the CHicoms in check.