Global fossil fuel consumption is roughly 100x greater than the global fossil fuel formation rate. With that, solar power is the future — it's rapidly gettin...
Only evening hours actually, but pretty cool idea.
seems like it could be used as a weapon. I’d be surprised if that flies. we would be like ants and they’re the kids with a magnifying glass. it also would bring in net non sequesterable energy into the earths system.
seems like it could be used as a weapon. I’d be surprised if that flies. we would be like ants and they’re the kids with a magnifying glass. it also would bring in net non sequesterable energy into the earths system.
No the observed power on the ground is on the order of mW/m².
Comparable to moonlight and so far no one has classified that as a weapon.
is that each mirror or when they work together?
That’s for a single one but at tens of MW even a bunch of satellites isn’t going to get solar panels to produce an appreciable amount of power.
This video goes into the details of what kind of performance we can expect from the constellation