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About half of solar energy passes through the atmosphere, that factor of two isn't a good enough reason to use space-based solar panels for ground-based power grids.
Even though the microwave receiver power station in SimCity 2000 looked so cool.
But it's still solar panel system that produces a lot of electricity in a small area regardless of efficiency
Yes but its very dirty solar energy because rockets are very dirty and the amount of energy to lift all those arrays into orbit is substantial.
Unless we use an electromagnetic canon that's powered by renewables.
I know we have to tamper our growth in general starting with fossil fuel consumption