HELP- - -Electricity in space settlement????

The High Frontier - edition 3. Chapter 4 pages 32 and 33 (just for one
example)
compares the use of lightweight mirrors with a turbogenerator plants to
similar ground based plants, nuclear plants, coal plants, hydroelectric
plants etc.

It's been a while since I last read them through and I'm not going to go
looking for other mentions but I seem to recall frequent mentions in
both the high frontier and 2081 of (paraphrased) "need more energy ?
build a bigger mirror"

PV cells require high tech plants, all of which are at the bottom of a
gravity well. Mirrors and using thermal energy is fairly low tech by
comparison and are more suitable to being made from in space resources
(my thoughts and phrasing)

bonello_joseph wrote: