Comment by ben_w
9 hours ago
You know how people sometimes dismiss PV by saying "what happens at night or in cloudy weather?"?
Well, what happens over the course of a year of night and clouds is that 1 TW-peak becomes an average of about 110 to 160 GW.
We're making ~1 TW-peak per year of PV right now.
but then you have answered the earlier question: solar panels in space pay themselves back ~7-8 times faster