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Re:The Quest to Build an Elevator into Space by jessriedel on Saturday October 04, 2014 @01:58AM (#8408907)
The atmosphere only attenuates sunlight by a factor of order unity. Won't it always be much, much cheaper to build slightly larger solar panels?
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