Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80%
echodot@feddit.uk 21 hours agoSpace-based solar would generate orders of magnitude more power than we actually have a use for.
Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80%
echodot@feddit.uk 21 hours agoSpace-based solar would generate orders of magnitude more power than we actually have a use for.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
It would generate as much or as little power as we design it to. As little as a single solar panel or a multi-gigawatt array.
Even in operation it wouldn’t overproduce electricity. We have people, grid managers, who’s entire job is to coordinate all of the generation sources on the grid so that they adjust their output in order to match demand and maintain grid stability.
Our generation capacity is always higher than normal demand, but all generation methods have the ability to control their output.