FT: How to make space-based solar power a reality

Excerpt: In 2020 the UK government commissioned a study on the economic and technological feasibility of space solar power. The study concluded that the total cost to develop and deploy the first 2GW space-based solar power station would be roughly £16bn — substantially less than the latest £33bn estimate for Britain’s newest nuclear power station at Hinkley Point, which is set to produce 3.2GW. Once the first solar station was up and running, subsequent power generating satellites would cost less than £4bn each, the study estimated.

It could become reality, IF most weight parts will be done in space from space materials.<p>Or if use some not existent now very cheap system to deliver payloads, like catapults or centrifugal accelerators.<p>If make all at Earth and deliver by rockets, economy will be somewhere like build solar power station in Antarctica.

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