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0 pointsadrianN5y ago0 comments

On Earth a commercial solar panel produces around 150W per square meter peak. I don't think you can improve this by more than an order of magnitude. Solar power drops off with the square of the distance to the sun. 200MW is a lot of solar panels.

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ben_w5y ago

Not by a factor of ten, but you can get 47.1% of the sunlight (which at 1 AU with no atmosphere is 1360 W/m^2), or 640 W/m^2.

Even then, 200 MW is a square 560 meters on each side.

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ben_w5y ago

Not by a factor of ten, but you can get 47.1% of the sunlight (which at 1 AU with no atmosphere is 1360 W/m^2), or 640 W/m^2.

Even then, 200 MW is a square 560 meters on each side.

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