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A new NASA study seems to pull the plug on space solar power, by saying its vastly more expensive than Earth based solar. (www.thespacereview.com)
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[–] acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Reminds me of Sim City (I forget which one.. 2000?) where one of the power plants was a space based one that would beam the power down to a station. You’d then have a chance of getting a disaster where the beam “missed”.