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Thread: In 2020 space based solar power will be half the cost of nuclear pow
# 22754 byCharles Radley on March 18, 2012, 7:03 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22
http://www.stretchedlensarray.com/TheProject.htm Entech expects that by 2020 their panels will generate 1KW per kg. That means a 1 GW solar panel would weigh 1,000 tons. We could launch that into LEO for $2.6 B using Falcon-9 (then use ion drive to GEO) .... half the cost of an equivalent nuclear power station.