Elon Musk: “In space, you've got continuous solar. You actually don't…”

“And then if you take it up to say, a terawatt per year, impossible. Like, you have to do that in space. There just is no way to do a terawatt per year on Earth. And In space, you've got continuous solar. You actually don't need batteries because it's always sunny in space. That's right, exactly. And the solar panels actually become cheaper because you don't need glass or framing and the cooling is just radiative. So that's why I think that's the dream.” (23:40–23:50)

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