12-02-2016, 08:09 PM
(12-01-2016, 08:26 AM)JoeStrout Wrote: On the other hand, as terrestrial solar gets better and cheaper, it chips away at the economic advantage of space-based solar power. ...A satellite in geostationary orbit is in sunlight full time, except 2 brief and very predictable times a year when it passes through Earth's shadow. With multiple satellites they won't be passing through the shadow at the same time. Baring a massive improvement in electrical storage, ground based solar can't touch that availability.