The view is not a big thing I guess but 100 x 100 is 10,000 share miles. Think about how many solar cells it would take to fill that.
Think of the wiring needed to convey all that power. Solar is low voltage DC. The inverters would have to be enormous or in the thousands to provide power outside that area.
This whole idea is plan to fleece the U.S. taxpayer.
Not to mention the uncounted square miles of batteries to store the power ...
Either musk’s math is off or their has been a huge increase in solar panel efficiency since I last looked - the average coal fired plant produces 1000-mega watts of power continuously and sits on 125 acres.
“Each run-of-the-mill 1,000-megawatt photovoltaic (solar) plant will require about 60 square miles of panes alone. In other words, the largest industrial structure ever built.” - a text clipping whose origin is now lost. And musky wants to build one nearly 200 times bigger.
Never mind how many solar cells - where is all the rare earths and other materials coming form to build such a structure - which only will account for the country’s CURRENT power needs ...
Probably cheaper and easier to mine H3 on the moon to build fusion plants ...