eastbay wrote:Everything humans have ever made breaks down.
More importantly, everything we've made in the past few decades breaks down really fast and as we all know, all space based technology breaks down even faster due to deteriorating orbits, tech glitches, you name it. So this will require very costly periodic maintenance flights. This gismo won't just sit up there untended merrily pouring free energy down to everyone.
Don't forget to add that to the EROEI.
Let the German's figure it out.