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EEVblog 1637: Solar Freakin' Space Mirrors! - Reflect Orbital DEBUNKED
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EEVblog's Dave Jones critiques Reflect Orbital's plan to sell sunlight to solar farms after dark using orbital mirrors. He walks through the numbers to show the idea does not work out.
HN cites it as a debunking whenever the space mirror startup comes up, as a TL;DW that the design is impractical.
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