Mercury Solar Power Station

Is Mercury a good place to build a solar power plant?

Other than an energy plant in Mercury of course! I think Venus is in a great location. The Moon shipyard and Mars wharf are next door, and Mercury and asteroid belt are also very close. I would put the first stations in mars and a small solar power plant in mercury.

Is Mercury a good source of energy?

Mercury is good but just make a solar station there and have terran freighters ship your energy cells everywhere. I made my terran station at first in Asteroid Belt, but after some progress I helped the TER clean out Savage spur and I put a factory in there. The resources in that sector are bananas.

Where is Mercury's storage facility located?

The storage facility is on the site of Mercury’s mothballed thermal power station next door to Transpower’s Southdown switchyard which is capable of moving over 100MW in and out of the grid.

Could a space power station be a precursor to solar power?

A collection of LEO (low Earth orbit) space power stations has been proposed as a precursor to GEO (geostationary orbit) space-based solar power. The Earth-based rectenna would likely consist of many short dipole antennas connected via diodes.

How much solar power does a space station need?

This is, however, far from the state of the art for flown spacecraft, which as of 2015 was 150 W/kg (6.7 kg/kW), and improving rapidly. Very lightweight designs could likely achieve 1 kg/kW, meaning 4,000 metric tons for the solar panels for the same 4 GW capacity station.

Where can I find information about space solar power?

The National Space Society maintains an extensive space solar power library Archived 2018-04-14 at the Wayback Machine of all major historical documents and studies associated with space solar power, and major news articles Archived 2016-05-29 at the Wayback Machine. ^ "Space-based solar power".