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I'm enjoying Saturday Startup Stories, who've been going for nearly a year now. They do a 15 minute-ish video on a startup each week, followed by some great long form interviews. As someone who's been a corporate monkey my working life, fun to see what it takes to get a company off the ground, especially in new and novel domains.
This week's was on Reflect Orbital, who have an interesting approach to space based solar power. Most space solar power projects proposed are vary large solar arrays + microwaving beaming electricity down to Earth. There's cost and technical challenges to that and it's arguable whether it'll ever be viable.
Reflect are proposing constellation of really cheap small mylar mirrors that direct sunlight down to existing solar farms. They're expecting existing farms to pay them a sunlight fee to increase usage of their existing investment/infrastructure.
There wouldn't be a big spotlight beam or anything like that. You'd only notice you're sunlight zone if you were stood in it.
Great idea. We'll see how they're doing when they start to launch stuff next year.
This week's was on Reflect Orbital, who have an interesting approach to space based solar power. Most space solar power projects proposed are vary large solar arrays + microwaving beaming electricity down to Earth. There's cost and technical challenges to that and it's arguable whether it'll ever be viable.
Reflect are proposing constellation of really cheap small mylar mirrors that direct sunlight down to existing solar farms. They're expecting existing farms to pay them a sunlight fee to increase usage of their existing investment/infrastructure.
There wouldn't be a big spotlight beam or anything like that. You'd only notice you're sunlight zone if you were stood in it.
Great idea. We'll see how they're doing when they start to launch stuff next year.
