This guy is trying too hard to sound like his boss (“let’s dive into this exponential technology”), but it’s a good summary of the state of the play on a technology that’s often been portrayed in SF since an Asimov story in 1941.
Short version is that it’s currently prohibitively expensive to send up the large satellites that would be required, so we need the capacity to build them out of materials that are already in space.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Why the Future of Solar Power Is from Space
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