Absolute nonsense #ESA plans for space generated solar power. IIRC, one of the studies was supposed to be delivered two years ago.
Such huge structures in space will be highly vulnerable to space debris or malicious attacks, to name just two apparently unsolvable security problems. It'll be interesting to see what the numbers say, when comparing the total cost for such a monstrosity with similar plans for solar power generation on the surface of the Earth.
#SBSP Recent breakthroughs include self-healing #SolarPanels ☀️ that can maintain their efficiency for tens to hundreds of years. A new efficiency record broke the theoretical limit of 33.7 per cent 📈. The first production of ultra-efficient perovskite solar panels could begin in China 🇨🇳. #UK 🇬🇧 startup #OxfordPV is already in the process of commercialising the technology, with hopes of beginning full-scale production at a German 🇩🇪 facility later this year https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-panel-world-record-perovskite-energy-b2445026.html
Are Adityanath and Mukhtar Ansari on the same side now?
The gangster-turned-politician’s son, Abbas Ansari, is a legislator from the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party with which the BJP has renewed its alliance.
📆 March 2023 Due to high #LaunchCost and payload weight limits, a strong increase in the specific power of #SolarCells for #space use is highly desirable. Moreover, truly #flexible 🧻 solar cells will enable completely different deployment strategies. Novel solar cell technologies based on organic solar cells or perovskite solar cells offer these advantages of being lightweight, potentially cheap 💶 and fully flexible https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/10/5/nwad071/7077559
• When a distinguished but elderly #scientist 👨🔬 states that something is #possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is #impossible, they are very probably #wrong.
• The only way of discovering the #limits of the #possible is to venture a little way past them into the #impossible.
• Any sufficiently #advanced#technology is indistinguishable from #magic.
@SkipHuffman would have to be done by #SpaceRobot with #SBSP (and probably #3dPrinted parts). If #AsteroidMining were already developed, material would also be available. AFAIK the reactor needs a minimum size, so an experiment aboard a #SpaceStation wouldn't be an option. Outside the bots would have the advantage they don't need a #Spacesuit, oxygen or sleep