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jrkyesterday at 11:54 PM1 replyview on HN

The 1TW is the rated peak power output. It's essentially the same in space. The thing that changes is the average fraction of this sustained over time (due to day/night/seasons/atmosphere, or the lack of all of the above).

It's still the same 1TW theoretical peak in space, it's just that you can actually use close to that full capacity all the time, whereas on earth you'd need to over-provision substantially and add storage, so 1TW of panels can only drive perhaps a few hundred GW of average load.


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singleshot_yesterday at 11:59 PM

> the whole capacity

Wouldn’t something like half of the panels be in shadow at any time?

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