$1/watt for PV panels? (was SSP estimate for UK power grid) Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: $1/watt for PV panels? (was SSP estimate for UK power grid)
# 10933 byhitssquad@... on Oct. 21, 2008, 10:37 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
--- In spacesettlers 10566, ANTIcarrot wrote:
> SSP 'back of the envelope' study for the UK grid.
> 10GW satellite weighs 100,000 metric tons with 1980s
> tech; same as a Nimitz aircraft carrier.
> Assume a transmitter twice as big, which produces a
> rectenna half the size.
> Assume $10B for material and assembly costs; as for a Nimitz.
what kind?