5 Reasons Going To Mars is a TERRIBLE Idea | Answers With Joe

Am 02.05.2018 um 18:30 schrieb wlm_efn@... [spacesettlers]:
> Transmission and conversion losses are on the order of 50 percent total. So,
> in real power delivered to the ground it's 2 to 2.5 times.

that bad? i thought they had improved it in the meantime

this makes the economics case for SPS much worse

servus

markus

>
> > So the potential revenue per area is about 4 or 5 times that of a
> ground based
> > cell
>
> > Add to that that a space based solar cell will possibly have a lower
> life time
> > (ground based cell today often have a 25 year power warranty) due to the
> > harsher environment.
>
> > Additionally: the necessity of the rectenna

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