Elon Musk: “If you're doing 300 gigawatts a year, that would be like 2/3…”

“It's very difficult to do that on earth. So the US average electricity usage, last time I checked was around 460 gigawatts per year average usage. So something like, say If you're doing 300 gigawatts a year, that would be like 2/3 of US electricity production per year. There's no way you're building power plants at that level. And then if you take it up to say, a terawatt per year, impossible. Like, you have to do that in space.” (23:17–23:22)

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