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Re:Algae to crude oil: Million-year natural process takes mi... by UnFleshedOne on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @12:34PM (#6929004)
Isn't the point of solar in space, well, space? You get less efficiency, but you are not going to run out of deserts nearly as fast. So the ultimate scale is not limited.
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Re:Algae to crude oil: Million-year natural process takes mi... by scarmig on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @03:00PM (#6930202)
Are we really running out of deserts anytime soon? Isn't the issue more the capital and labor intensity of harvesting energy from sunlight, and transporting that energy to places that actually need it?

Space exacerbates those two issues.

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