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one of the things that interests me about an orbital ring is the idea of using the cables to get space solar power down to the ground

orbital solar is capable of incredible scale, but the microwave downlink bit, while clever, is a bottleneck

it's also both funny and frustrating that the dumb meme solution of "use a giant extension cord" is basically the correct one

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