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Re:How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm by api on Thursday April 24, 2014 @01:57PM (#7641792)
Is he factoring in energy storage costs? That's the real problem. Gathering solar energy is easy, storing gigawatt-hours of it at night is not.
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Re:How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm by itazula on Thursday April 24, 2014 @11:00PM (#7644521)
Nah, they'd be charging all of those Teslas.
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