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  • Another solar panel fail. For those who think solar energy is cheap

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 8 00:26:13 2022
    How much are the costs of these things, really? in lost productivity? Marginal performance? These things work best (if they get there and unfurl) in Earth orbit. Elsewhere, no.

    https://phys.org/news/2022-11-solar-panel-cargo-capsule-bound.html

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  • From Chris L Peterson@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 8 01:56:58 2022
    On Tue, 8 Nov 2022 00:26:13 -0800 (PST), RichA <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    How much are the costs of these things, really? in lost productivity? Marginal performance? These things work best (if they get there and unfurl) in Earth orbit. Elsewhere, no.

    https://phys.org/news/2022-11-solar-panel-cargo-capsule-bound.html

    It's not cheap. It's just usually best.

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