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I meant 4 or 5 times the total electrical energy produced by solar cells at theSPS, compared to solar cells on the ground. Then one just multiplies thosefactors by 50% for the electrical energy delivered at the ground for SPS.Maybe this is not correct.> do you mean my comparison of ground to space based solar cell yield? or> the data on transmission looses?>> 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.