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Originally Posted by danielf
It will if you harvest it in space (24/7) and beam it down to earth.  |
On the downside. Considering there is no replacement for the Space Shuttle, and the lead-time required to design and build a replacement, you're prolly look 10 - 15 years before anything is available to take the bits into orbit where they would need to be bolted together. The add in all the ground based hardware needed to control the orbital mirrors, and some sort of groundbased receiver to capture the reflected sunlight....
Sparkle.... Surely the reactor only needs to maintain the 150 million degree temperature to start the fusion reaction ? Unless I picked up the info wrong ofc....