[ExI] SpaceX Super Heavy and Space Solar

[Kelly Anderson]

Musk is making too much on Starlink to be bothered with low ROI energy, but
once there are 30,000+ starlink satellites up there, he'll go looking for
the next step. This MIGHT be it. We will see.

-Kelly

On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 7:41 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 4:46 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024, Keith Henson wrote:
>> >> I love the idea personally, but I assume, cost aside, that there's
>> >> probably some hurdle, technical or political lurking inside there
>> >> somewhere.
>> >
>> > It is the dollar scale of the project that is the big hurdle.
>>
>> Well, let's release Musk on it, and I'm sure it will be done in a couple
>> of years! =)
>>
>
> Musk is free to pursue it already.
>
> Notice that he isn't actively pursuing it.
>
> If some power company were to approach SpaceX about setting up such a
> thing, using the money involved to subsidize a high launch rate the way
> Starlink has subsidized a high launch rate for the Falcons, then maybe.
> But the scale of money would seem to exceed what even Musk is free to drop
> on it.
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