The absolute maximum power this could generate, is the power that a solar panel the size of the reflector would generate. You can see that in the video, that huge mirror could only generate 200W, that's not even half of what only one PC consumes. This concept will never be profitable.
It's even worse than that.. Their mirror is claimed to be 100m sq.. but it's spreading that energy over a 5km sq area spot on the ground. lol.. That's 100m capture spread over 25,000,000m area. smh.. So it's dissipating the light so much that the energy density is 250k times less per sq meter on the ground.. It's absolutely a jok3. (eevblog just dropped a video about this)
@@calholli And worse still, their goal is to make money - not to generate or supply power, only aspiring to be middlemen. And by the looks of it; "So there's Tristan standing in the sunbeam" , "I can feel the heat actually hahahaha" , not having a clue about the danger they're creating.
@@ItsCalilum These dudes supposedly worked for SpaceX, so no doubt took a page from the book of Elon Musk, in taking something someone else thought of decades ago that sounds cool, but in reality was totally untenable, and pretending it's something new and revolutionary so they can swindle the scientifically illiterate public with it.
"Can we sell sunlight after dark?" Yes, you can. But it never will be profitable. Study basic optics first. You need at least the same mirror size as the solar plant on the ground you want to "illuminate". Only working during dusk and dawn, and not for cloudy skies. This means a lot of dead time for your system. How long will every mirror of your system work? 1000hrs? 2000hrs per year? Better to built more PV on the ground, will be cheaper. And batteries will by far outperform your concept. Not even speaking about side effects for people and animals living nearby your light beams. Sorry that I can't give you a more optimistic comment.
Basically anything that was invented was questioned if it actually would work. This idea is literally the start of something big to come. You'll have the last laugh in 30 years from now when we're able to harness the full power of the sun. 😂
Also it would need to be paraboloidal, and reshapable in real time to focus the light correctly as it orbits - either that or it would actually need to be thousands of times bigger than the solar plant. Basic geometry and optics seems to be something that these guys missed when working at SpaceX - they are totally trying to scam ignorant people out of their money.
The amazing part is that someone actually gave you real money to waste on this complete non-starter of an idea that is hundreds of years old. Gotta love start-up culture!
I'm waiting on their approach to folding/inflating/expanding geometry. Obviously you'd want the reflective area to be maximum size, and still adjustable, is it one satellite for one solar farm, or can they multiplex... And especially what's the cost per kw? This operation, needs to be so efficient, that it's both cheap to sell, and covers the satellite launch cost. If they can get a durable system going, and have each sat work for decades, it could pay itself back and be cool for humanity, light on demand..
@@cwinhallit's really simple to debunk, just take 1 min and think about it The sun projects about 1000w on a square metre of Earth, with a reflector you get some losses because unless it's a perfect mirror it's going to absorb and re-radiate some of the energy into space, now, to get the same amount of energy to earth to the solar farm, how big do you think that reflector system needs to be?... At least as big as the solar farm itself... Not going to happen lol
@@cwinhall Here's sensible reasoning.. They claimed that their satillite size will be a 100m mirror.. but shines a spot on the ground over a 5km area.. Just do the math. 100m sq dissipated over 25,000,000m sq. The energy density is 250k times less. This is either a scam or they are really that.... slow
@@cwinhall The idea is completely stupid right on the surface. If you need an explanation to understand how dumb this is, I suspect you have no education in science.
@@calholli Thanks for this man, just watched it. I had my own host of issues I could think of but Dave did a good job of covering them and so many more. Its almost as bad if not worse than "solar fricking roadways"
looks cool but, generally "cool" means not enough research, just bring money to support us. This will increase heat in atmosphere, we still did not solve CO2 issue..
Please think about this. This would be an atrocity against all life on earth. Please camp out in that desert location at NIGHT when the moon is NOT in the sky sometime and then realize that what you see there is not only already disappearing 9% per year, but would be completely eradicated should something like this EVER be realized. it doesn't matter if it is possible or not, this should not be pursued. Light pollution.
Come on man, the ludicrosity of this concept makes the solar roadways people look like Nobel laureates. I wish your backers luck; anyone who invests in this deserves exactly what they get.
This is amazing, but terrifying if you think of it! With just 2 mirrors your buddy on the ground was able to feel the heat! Could this be the new Prometheus lens?
What do you think the reason behind the ruzky's mission was? Solar power in the late 1900's? They wanted to test if they could make a directed beam weapon. It was deemed unfeasible as costs didn't add up.
@@aserta yes which is true, but space travel is exponentially cheaper than what it was. Technology has advanced significantly! Plus Ben hear just made an option for it to help pay for itself
As always inspiring work, but has there been any investigation into the potential ecological or environmental impact of large amounts of extra directed sunlight being emitted into environments that as i understand it have had a stable/limited day/night cycle up til now? I understand that this would be operating in limited areas but it seems very much like a concept with a ludicrous number of potential unexpected side effects regarding environmental and ecological systems that the earth relies upon, for example I'm no scientist or engineer in a true sense but I feel like there is natural concern when scaling this solution as wouldn't this potentially be an awful lot of extra energy being directed to the earths surface? At larger scales would it not also impact local temp/climate if you're illuminating entire solar farms? Just curious if this is something you've looked into thoroughly (i assume you would have so I guess I'm asking more whether you found conclusive evidence that these concerns aren't anything to be worried about)
The average solar farm in California is about 170 acres, or 688,000 square meters. So even if you ignore the beam spread of 0.5 degrees when using a flat mirror, you would need 68,800 of your 10 sqm mirror satellites to power a single solar farm. All this is assuming a 100% reflectance surface which doesn't exist. Now to compensate for that beam spread, every single one of those 68,800 sats needs to have a variable parabolic mirror. Variable parabolic mirrors that never fail, and are always at the correct curve. If not, then you have wasted energy (beam spread), or the equivalent of an ant under a magnifying glass. That's just for a single solar farm. ONE, of the over 10,000 existing and planned solar farms in California alone. So just for CA alone you would need 688,000,000 sats. Wanna cut solar farm output in half, that's still gonna take millions of satellites that are far superior to what you plan to use. That's assuming that ever single one of those millions of satellites are receiving sunlight. Something that isn't even possible in LEO or even geosync orbit.
Why not? The math works out. We're already putting thousands of satellites in space for internet. There's no technological barrier, just engineering to be done.
@@175griffin Yes, so you read the SBSP reports? Turns out I’m an engineer 30 yrs design and build. How does the “math”suddenly work for microwave transmitter and receiver efficiencies, or allocation of permanent rcvr ground area. How are MWs of heat dissipated via radiative only. W a role of commercial power, how does it ever deliver power more cheaply than any ground based?
What happens if it's pointed somewhere that's already hot in the sun? Temperatures above 50C? Like a giant magnifying glass cooking cities like ants? The military loves to turn anything into a weapon. Having the ability to see at night with a 5km radius would also surely be a huge benefit in war depending on who controls it. So one side can benefit at night, while disadvantaging the enemy with extreme heat during the day. Sounds like a scary amount of power to control tbh. If a couple of guys can make it themselves, then I'm sure a billion dollar military can make bigger ones for far worse reasons. Cool project though! XD
The whole world: *fights global warming* Some guys: hmm, why not heat the planet with the sun's rays at night too, just for fun? But seriously, the project is useless. It simply won't work in cloudy weather.
The legend himself is back!! Remember watching the boat video many years ago 6-7. I managed to buy a boat this year and im rebuilding the motor! Keep going and update us about the project as you wish!
While this is neat, the issue is the same as with the constellation of internet satellites up top. Pollution and at that, at night, the light pollution this would cause. This makes science very difficult to do and AT that, this kind of device in orbit would give the entire planet a huge middle finger should it block the observation of something like an asteroid.
It would only be practical near sunset and sunrise, but that could still be a massive upgrade to existing solar farms. Humanity likes energy more than it cares for science and the wellbeing of the Earth. If it's an economical solution, people with money will make sure it happens. Not saying that's a good thing, just inevitable under current systems.
@@175griffin This isn't about sunset or sunrise, because you wouldn't do this in a balloon. That's not economical. This whole endeavor cost more than it put into those solar panels. No this is about putting satellites with deflectors in space. That means full use at night by beaming energy (via mirror) to the dark side. In truth, this is about the limitations of political Earth. In a more civilized society, the entire planet would be pockmarked with solar panels and solar boilers, crisscrossed with cabling and sharing energy, paid by all govs under one international program. Then this issue (after dark) wouldn't be there, because at all times, the Grid would produce enough electricity to power even the dark side.
You should have looked into being α battery company... makes more sense to store the extra energy generated during the dαy and use it in the evening... like many countries are currently building capacity to do. So even if you could do this far-fetched scheme at the imaginary numbers you say you can do it at, it would be out competed by batteries.
I think experience of witnessing flares produced from solar reflectors located on earth's orbit can be very mesmerizing. I hope your idea will work out.
Would love to hear your approach to folding/inflating/expanding geometry. Obviously you'd want the reflective area to be maximum size, and still adjustable, is it one satellite for one solar farm, or is it multiplex... And especially what's the cost per kw? This operation, needs to be so efficient, that it's both cheap to sell, and covers the satellite launch cost. If you can get a durable system going, and have each sat work for decades, it could pay itself back and be cool for humanity, light on demand.. Thanks a lot and all the best ❤ Subscribed
Wouldn't this work better at higher latitudes where the earth spins slower and can thus extend solar farms in polar regions to a higher percentage change than say the equator. I.e Improving solar time in polar regions by a few hours compared to maybe an hour at the equator.
This might actually work out. I thought this idea was stupid, because launching things into space is expensive. So I did the math, and it actually adds up. NASA proposed a solar sail (which is basically a giant space mirror) that is 1200 m^2 and weighs 32kg, with 80kg of support. This is 112kg to launch into space. With the current cheapest rocket (falcon , $3600 per kgg) this would cost $400k. But with SpaceX's next-gen starhip they aim to get this down to just $20 per kg, so $2240. Even assuming the starship costs are 10x higher, it would only cost $22.4k to send into space, or $6.3 per square meter. A square meter of regular solar panel costs around $200. Assuming this mirror reflects 100% of the sunlight 50% of the time, it would generate $12k a year worth of electricity (assuming 10 cents per kwh). It would pay itself off in about two years., and that's being very pessimistic with the starship costs. I haven't factored in the material costs, but it's really just a giant mirror so when you scale this up the materials should be cheap compared to the rocket launch. This can pay itself off in just a few months if SpaceX reaches its starship goal. To put that into perspective, regular solar takes 10-20 years to pay itself off. And again, even if starship gets 10x more expensive, it would take these space mirrors 16 years to pay themselves off, basically the same as solar and even then there are tons of optimizations you can do, like reducing the structure weight and increasing the size of the panels. It's insane how launching a mirror into space can be more cost-effective than regular solar.
It would be possible, but not using such a tiny mirror. And also the orbit preferably would be a lot higher so it can actually light part of the earth where it is night. The cost of doing that all would be prohibitive.
The absolute maximum power this could generate, is the power that a solar panel the size of the reflector would generate. You can see that in the video, that huge mirror could only generate 200W, that's not even half of what only one PC consumes. This concept will never be profitable.
It's even worse than that.. Their mirror is claimed to be 100m sq.. but it's spreading that energy over a 5km sq area spot on the ground. lol.. That's 100m capture spread over 25,000,000m area. smh.. So it's dissipating the light so much that the energy density is 250k times less per sq meter on the ground.. It's absolutely a jok3. (eevblog just dropped a video about this)
@@calholli And worse still, their goal is to make money - not to generate or supply power, only aspiring to be middlemen.
And by the looks of it; "So there's Tristan standing in the sunbeam" , "I can feel the heat actually hahahaha" , not having a clue about the danger they're creating.
@@ItsCalilum These dudes supposedly worked for SpaceX, so no doubt took a page from the book of Elon Musk, in taking something someone else thought of decades ago that sounds cool, but in reality was totally untenable, and pretending it's something new and revolutionary so they can swindle the scientifically illiterate public with it.
Omg people are sucking money out of the economy for this scam. We truly live in the Idiocracy.
"Can we sell sunlight after dark?"
Yes, you can. But it never will be profitable. Study basic optics first. You need at least the same mirror size as the solar plant on the ground you want to "illuminate". Only working during dusk and dawn, and not for cloudy skies. This means a lot of dead time for your system. How long will every mirror of your system work? 1000hrs? 2000hrs per year? Better to built more PV on the ground, will be cheaper. And batteries will by far outperform your concept. Not even speaking about side effects for people and animals living nearby your light beams.
Sorry that I can't give you a more optimistic comment.
You look and sound like Matthew from Netflix show You, By the way who are you man
Basically anything that was invented was questioned if it actually would work. This idea is literally the start of something big to come. You'll have the last laugh in 30 years from now when we're able to harness the full power of the sun. 😂
Also it would need to be paraboloidal, and reshapable in real time to focus the light correctly as it orbits - either that or it would actually need to be thousands of times bigger than the solar plant. Basic geometry and optics seems to be something that these guys missed when working at SpaceX - they are totally trying to scam ignorant people out of their money.
After three years the man just randomly returns. love it :D
This is hilariously stupid 😂 congrats if you get to scam some money out of it
Sadly no doubt a bunch of ignorant people will throw money at them.
@@Beer_Dad1975 India would buy it in a heartbeat...
We have officially entered clown world.
The background music is so bad.
That's overwerk if I'm not wrong
LOL techbros discover mirrors and generate 200 WHOLE WATS OVER A FEW SECONDS, OMG AMAZING!
Another would be ELON MUSK con artist.
The amazing part is that someone actually gave you real money to waste on this complete non-starter of an idea that is hundreds of years old. Gotta love start-up culture!
The amazing part is that instead of sensibly explaining your reasoning, you chose to simply attack the idea.
I'm waiting on their approach to folding/inflating/expanding geometry. Obviously you'd want the reflective area to be maximum size, and still adjustable, is it one satellite for one solar farm, or can they multiplex... And especially what's the cost per kw? This operation, needs to be so efficient, that it's both cheap to sell, and covers the satellite launch cost. If they can get a durable system going, and have each sat work for decades, it could pay itself back and be cool for humanity, light on demand..
@@cwinhallit's really simple to debunk, just take 1 min and think about it
The sun projects about 1000w on a square metre of Earth, with a reflector you get some losses because unless it's a perfect mirror it's going to absorb and re-radiate some of the energy into space, now, to get the same amount of energy to earth to the solar farm, how big do you think that reflector system needs to be?... At least as big as the solar farm itself... Not going to happen lol
@@cwinhall Here's sensible reasoning.. They claimed that their satillite size will be a 100m mirror.. but shines a spot on the ground over a 5km area.. Just do the math. 100m sq dissipated over 25,000,000m sq. The energy density is 250k times less. This is either a scam or they are really that.... slow
@@cwinhall The idea is completely stupid right on the surface. If you need an explanation to understand how dumb this is, I suspect you have no education in science.
If you ever make back the investment in the balloon ride and mirror in power generated on the ground, I’ll send you $5.
“This it, we’re doin it man! We’re getting cliks for our stupid bro videos”
Cannot wait for the thunder foot video on this shit.
Dave (eevblog) just dropped a video about it. lol
They're cooked
@@calholli Thanks for this man, just watched it. I had my own host of issues I could think of but Dave did a good job of covering them and so many more. Its almost as bad if not worse than "solar fricking roadways"
looks cool but, generally "cool" means not enough research, just bring money to support us. This will increase heat in atmosphere, we still did not solve CO2 issue..
This could power the Hyperloop
@@davexmit please tell me you’re joking.
Please think about this. This would be an atrocity against all life on earth. Please camp out in that desert location at NIGHT when the moon is NOT in the sky sometime and then realize that what you see there is not only already disappearing 9% per year, but would be completely eradicated should something like this EVER be realized. it doesn't matter if it is possible or not, this should not be pursued. Light pollution.
UA-cam should start recommending this vid more!
Can you add source of the clip from 00:07 where it was tested at night? Can't really make out where the light was coming from.
Theranos.
Hyperloop.
Reflect Orbital...
The video however, shows the process in the bright daylight :D
Good progress.
What kind of mirror design did you use?
I wonder if they used flat or round earth math to calculate that
Come on man, the ludicrosity of this concept makes the solar roadways people look like Nobel laureates. I wish your backers luck; anyone who invests in this deserves exactly what they get.
Backers are in this for clik $. They don’t care about stupid Watts.
This is amazing, but terrifying if you think of it! With just 2 mirrors your buddy on the ground was able to feel the heat! Could this be the new Prometheus lens?
Nonetheless keep up the amazing work! I have always been super impressed with you!
What do you think the reason behind the ruzky's mission was? Solar power in the late 1900's? They wanted to test if they could make a directed beam weapon. It was deemed unfeasible as costs didn't add up.
@@aserta yes which is true, but space travel is exponentially cheaper than what it was. Technology has advanced significantly! Plus Ben hear just made an option for it to help pay for itself
As always inspiring work, but has there been any investigation into the potential ecological or environmental impact of large amounts of extra directed sunlight being emitted into environments that as i understand it have had a stable/limited day/night cycle up til now?
I understand that this would be operating in limited areas but it seems very much like a concept with a ludicrous number of potential unexpected side effects regarding environmental and ecological systems that the earth relies upon, for example I'm no scientist or engineer in a true sense but I feel like there is natural concern when scaling this solution as wouldn't this potentially be an awful lot of extra energy being directed to the earths surface? At larger scales would it not also impact local temp/climate if you're illuminating entire solar farms? Just curious if this is something you've looked into thoroughly (i assume you would have so I guess I'm asking more whether you found conclusive evidence that these concerns aren't anything to be worried about)
Translation: profit, we care about profit
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The average solar farm in California is about 170 acres, or 688,000 square meters. So even if you ignore the beam spread of 0.5 degrees when using a flat mirror, you would need 68,800 of your 10 sqm mirror satellites to power a single solar farm. All this is assuming a 100% reflectance surface which doesn't exist.
Now to compensate for that beam spread, every single one of those 68,800 sats needs to have a variable parabolic mirror. Variable parabolic mirrors that never fail, and are always at the correct curve. If not, then you have wasted energy (beam spread), or the equivalent of an ant under a magnifying glass.
That's just for a single solar farm. ONE, of the over 10,000 existing and planned solar farms in California alone. So just for CA alone you would need 688,000,000 sats. Wanna cut solar farm output in half, that's still gonna take millions of satellites that are far superior to what you plan to use. That's assuming that ever single one of those millions of satellites are receiving sunlight. Something that isn't even possible in LEO or even geosync orbit.
Futuristic thinking
another rube goldberg hopium pipe
bro had caps lock on he got so excited
Very interesting and cool, but not practical, especially on a large scale.
For the future of clean energy generation nuclear is still where its at.
Why not? The math works out. We're already putting thousands of satellites in space for internet. There's no technological barrier, just engineering to be done.
@@175griffin “math” you learned before recess doesn’t help here.
@@Nill757 I have a physics degree.
@@175griffin Yes, so you read the SBSP reports? Turns out I’m an engineer 30 yrs design and build. How does the “math”suddenly work for microwave transmitter and receiver efficiencies, or allocation of permanent rcvr ground area. How are MWs of heat dissipated via radiative only. W a role of commercial power, how does it ever deliver power more cheaply than any ground based?
@@Nill757 Did you even watch the video? What gave you the impression that this is about microwave beamed power?
What happens if it's pointed somewhere that's already hot in the sun? Temperatures above 50C? Like a giant magnifying glass cooking cities like ants? The military loves to turn anything into a weapon. Having the ability to see at night with a 5km radius would also surely be a huge benefit in war depending on who controls it. So one side can benefit at night, while disadvantaging the enemy with extreme heat during the day. Sounds like a scary amount of power to control tbh. If a couple of guys can make it themselves, then I'm sure a billion dollar military can make bigger ones for far worse reasons. Cool project though! XD
👋 welcome back
Damn…ive been waiting for ur video….
What an absolute pile of nonsense
The fact that nobody said "Aziz Light!" from the ground... :(
Can someone tell me what this might be used for? I thought about solar panels, but I don't think that's the best application.
Nothing, it is useless. The power output is a joke.
Ideia muito interessante, parabens aos idealizadores do projeto.💪💪
One of the few channels I have notifications on and im glad
Yeah its big brain time use 100 bucks on propane to get 10 p on electricity xd but great idea man love the video
*Now add a magnifying glass!*
The whole world: *fights global warming*
Some guys: hmm, why not heat the planet with the sun's rays at night too, just for fun?
But seriously, the project is useless. It simply won't work in cloudy weather.
The legend himself is back!! Remember watching the boat video many years ago 6-7. I managed to buy a boat this year and im rebuilding the motor! Keep going and update us about the project as you wish!
Can Mr.Burns really block the sun ⛅ ? LoL 😂
Go Ben!
While this is neat, the issue is the same as with the constellation of internet satellites up top. Pollution and at that, at night, the light pollution this would cause.
This makes science very difficult to do and AT that, this kind of device in orbit would give the entire planet a huge middle finger should it block the observation of something like an asteroid.
It would only be practical near sunset and sunrise, but that could still be a massive upgrade to existing solar farms. Humanity likes energy more than it cares for science and the wellbeing of the Earth. If it's an economical solution, people with money will make sure it happens. Not saying that's a good thing, just inevitable under current systems.
@@175griffin This isn't about sunset or sunrise, because you wouldn't do this in a balloon. That's not economical. This whole endeavor cost more than it put into those solar panels. No this is about putting satellites with deflectors in space. That means full use at night by beaming energy (via mirror) to the dark side.
In truth, this is about the limitations of political Earth. In a more civilized society, the entire planet would be pockmarked with solar panels and solar boilers, crisscrossed with cabling and sharing energy, paid by all govs under one international program. Then this issue (after dark) wouldn't be there, because at all times, the Grid would produce enough electricity to power even the dark side.
@@aserta Yeah, obviously. Horizons exist in orbit too
cool music. lots of buzzwords. no mention expected operating lifetime or the feasibility of repairing / refueling a bunch of these satellites.
or are they expected to be left out there as space junk after their mass-produced hardware fails for un planned reasons
Loved it ❤
Yes.
It's hard to take you seriously with that music.
Woow, this is amazing
Interesting material but the crap video editing forced me to move on.
Great Video, Ben! Congratulations to the Reflects Team! Can't wait to get to orbit.
You should have looked into being α battery company... makes more sense to store the extra energy generated during the dαy and use it in the evening... like many countries are currently building capacity to do. So even if you could do this far-fetched scheme at the imaginary numbers you say you can do it at, it would be out competed by batteries.
I think experience of witnessing flares produced from solar reflectors located on earth's orbit can be very mesmerizing. I hope your idea will work out.
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amazing
Welcome back, seems like you have been busy! Can't wait to hear more.
Would love to hear your approach to folding/inflating/expanding geometry. Obviously you'd want the reflective area to be maximum size, and still adjustable, is it one satellite for one solar farm, or is it multiplex... And especially what's the cost per kw? This operation, needs to be so efficient, that it's both cheap to sell, and covers the satellite launch cost. If you can get a durable system going, and have each sat work for decades, it could pay itself back and be cool for humanity, light on demand..
Thanks a lot and all the best ❤ Subscribed
Amazing! It's about time somebody executed on this idea. Hope you can find commercial success!!
They won't. Not possible.
Interesting
Wouldn't this work better at higher latitudes where the earth spins slower and can thus extend solar farms in polar regions to a higher percentage change than say the equator.
I.e Improving solar time in polar regions by a few hours compared to maybe an hour at the equator.
Bull... bull bull bull ssssssss
This might actually work out. I thought this idea was stupid, because launching things into space is expensive. So I did the math, and it actually adds up. NASA proposed a solar sail (which is basically a giant space mirror) that is 1200 m^2 and weighs 32kg, with 80kg of support. This is 112kg to launch into space. With the current cheapest rocket (falcon , $3600 per kgg) this would cost $400k. But with SpaceX's next-gen starhip they aim to get this down to just $20 per kg, so $2240. Even assuming the starship costs are 10x higher, it would only cost $22.4k to send into space, or $6.3 per square meter. A square meter of regular solar panel costs around $200. Assuming this mirror reflects 100% of the sunlight 50% of the time, it would generate $12k a year worth of electricity (assuming 10 cents per kwh). It would pay itself off in about two years., and that's being very pessimistic with the starship costs. I haven't factored in the material costs, but it's really just a giant mirror so when you scale this up the materials should be cheap compared to the rocket launch. This can pay itself off in just a few months if SpaceX reaches its starship goal. To put that into perspective, regular solar takes 10-20 years to pay itself off. And again, even if starship gets 10x more expensive, it would take these space mirrors 16 years to pay themselves off, basically the same as solar and even then there are tons of optimizations you can do, like reducing the structure weight and increasing the size of the panels. It's insane how launching a mirror into space can be more cost-effective than regular solar.
Amazing build 👏
OMG this looks like so much fun to build and test
this is amazing
Will the military adapt it and cook enemies , light buildings on fire, melt mountain snow , cook people like ants under magnifying glass under sun etc
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The chump that doesn't even know how magnets work? Sure 🤣
Ahahaha whoa
Well, this is one small step for man, one giant leap for solar energy! I can't believe we're generating power by pointing a mirror at a solar panel.
No.
It would be possible, but not using such a tiny mirror. And also the orbit preferably would be a lot higher so it can actually light part of the earth where it is night.
The cost of doing that all would be prohibitive.
Nobody wants the sun shining in the middle of the night. GTFO with this dumb idea.
I sincerely hope you do not scam people into "funding" this crap
This is the worst thing ever
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elon musk vibes... and that's not a compliment haha . you are playing with ideological legos
Jealousy rears it's head
Ingenuity and aspiration aren't character flaws. Elon's brains are scrambled. Ben is pursuing a vision, good on him.
@@175griffinlmao, you are clearly a sock account with your half assed defences of this trash scam project
This is so stupid
Massive!!! Guilt-free limitless energy
what a *SCAM* 😂😂😂😂
Nah bro it ain't scam
Oh no.. lol. You guys just got cooked by Dave Jones eevblog.
So long boys