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

Down in Long Beach there is the Big Battery.
Yeah, a while back there was a discussion about improvements in PV efficiency or price. Somebody correctly pointed out that any such would benefit SPS as equally well as ground-based. I expressed the opinion that there was only one technical development that would shift advantage toward ground-based and away from SPS, and that would be some rapid, revolutionary advance in power storage. But even then, you raise a legitimate point that wed have to be careful that such didnt have its own attendant environmental problems.
I find your points interesting that no existing system even tries to cover the entire night-long gap.
Regards,
Mike Combs