clay wrote:

completely ridiculous idea.

It currently costs $10,000 to send an astronaut a bottle of water to
drink. How much do you think it is going to cost to put solar reflectors
in space. They reflect sunlight, they reflect microwaves (Jaxa). the
efficiency and actual cost of this idea puts it out of practicality.

ca

Isn't there pressure exerted by the suns energy on any array of cells? Assuming I'm
thinking right, how do you keep a massive solar collector from being pushed against and
slowed in orbit?

I can't remember if the array would go up in orbit or down in orbit but is sure wouldn't
point at the recieving station for long.

Wes