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Re:Harvesting solar power in space and sending it back to Earth by omh on Thursday August 29, 2013 @04:09AM (#6294789)
This seems to assume that you have the ground area on Earth for the panels. That's true where Musk is working in the US, but not for many smaller countries.

Of course I guess it that for those countries it would still be easier to put the panels somewhere else and build out the connection infrastructure than to put it in space.

Re:Harvesting solar power in space and sending it back to Earth by lucian1900 on Thursday August 29, 2013 @05:03AM (#6294939)
Surface area is at an even higher premium in space. One house > one satellite.
Re:Harvesting solar power in space and sending it back to Earth by hartror on Thursday August 29, 2013 @04:13AM (#6294796)
There are plenty of countries that are net importers of energy now.