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Solar power, from futurist speculation to business plan

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One mode of futurism is estimating the limits of a technology, without regard to what's currently feasible. Whether this is of any relevance to your own generation is another question. Let's consider solar power. Ignoring current technology, it's easy to put a number on the maximum power output. The solar power at the Earth's distance from the sun is called the solar constant . It is 1.36 kW/m² . The power on a square meter of the ground is less than that, because of the angle of incidence as well as the atmosphere. The solar constant hasn't changed and technology has, so it's interesting to s

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