EEVblog 1637: Solar Freakin’ Space Mirrors! - Reflect Orbital DEBUNKED

Reflect Orbital wants to put reflecting mirrors in space to sell sunlight to solar farms after dark. The numbers work out exactly as you expect them to. It’s Solar Freakin’ Space Mirror time! BenNBuilds balloon test video: First Principles interview with Ben Nowack: S3 Interview video with Reflect Orbital: S3 2nd interview with Ben Nowack & Tristan Semmelhack : article: ClimateCapital investment: Understanding the Duck Curve: Real time US energy price tracker: Forum: 00:00 - Reflect Orbital, Sunlight After Dark 01:18 - Ben Nowack from BenNBuilds Youtube channel & the balloon test 02:55 - Sun synchronous polar orbit reflecting mirror satellites 03:54 - A look at the website claims, a 5km sunlight spot for 4 minutes 05:58 - This isn’t new, the Russians did it with the Znamya 2, albeit unintentionally 06:56 - Who’s behind Reflect Orbital? 08:12 - What is the Duck Curve? 09:31 - CLAIM: A 10m x 10m satellite mylar reflector into a 12U Cubesat 10:09 - CLAIM: 10’s to 100’s if BILLIONS of dollar per year revenue! 10:35 - CLAIM: $50/MWh energy sale price after dark 11:18 - CLAIM: $175k/year revenue from each satellite & launch costs 11:58 - CLAIM: 200W/sqm? Err, in what universe? 12:24 - DaveCAD calculations 13:10 - 100kW maximum capture is reduced by the tilt angle 14:05 - 5mW/sqm. FIVE MILLIWATTS! Is this a JOKE? 14:50 - But WAIT, what if you combine and focus all the satellites? 16:02 - It gets WORSE! Capacity Factor is a problem. 18:14 - 20MWh/year WOW!, that’s a lot, right? Right? 19:22 - Even 20MWh/year become ZERO if it consumes more than it produces! 20:09 - How did nobody do a back-of-the-envelope calculation? If you find my videos useful you may consider supporting the EEVblog on Patreon: Or with crypto: BTC: 33BsprBQNBtHuVzVwDmqWkpDjYnCouwASM ETH: 0x68114e40ff4dcdd384750500501e20acf3875f8c BCH: 35n9KBPw9T7M3NGzpS3t4nUYEf9HbRmkm4 USDC: 0x68114e40ff4dcdd384750500501e20acf3875f8c LTC: MJfK57ujxy55su4XicVGQc9wcEJf6mAoXF Web Site: Store: Other channels: EEVblog2: EEVdiscover: T-Shirts: #ElectronicsCreators #debunking #solar Теги: eevblog,video,solar energy,reflect orbital,satellite technology,solar panels,renewable energy,solar power,selling sunlight,space technology,solar panel efficiency,satellite mirror,space mirrors,ben nowack,Tristan Semmelhack,the duck curve,capacity factor,capacity utilization factor of solar pv plant,debunk,debunked