| ▲ | cyberax 4 hours ago | |
This calcualtor is bullshit (inflated terrestrial costs and underflated orbital costs). It doesn't pass the basic sniff test: $15B for 1GW of terrestrial power is more than enough to build AN ENTIRE 3GWe NUCLEAR POWER PLANT. From scratch. With 75 years of expected life. So no, the calculations show that space is NOT feasible unless you want to do that for nefarious reasons: evading regulations, using AI for criminal enterprises, military use, that sort of thing. Only these applications have the profit margin that even comes close to justifying it. | ||