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Re:Russian crowdfunded reflector satellite aims to be “brigh... by pjc50 on Thursday March 03, 2016 @08:54AM (#11216793)
If you have 4000 layers, you need 4000 times as much light, so you need a 16000km^2 orbital mirror focusing on your farm's elaborate set of light-pipes. The highly focused light, like a CSP plant, would ignite birds that flew into the beam. At that scale it would probably alter the local climate, given the amount of heat transferred to the air.

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