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		milesward on June 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tesla Makes Offer to Acquire SolarCity Agreed. Don't beam, bury a superconductor in your Space Elevator tether cable. #wiresarenice

walrus01 on June 21, 2016 [–]

If we're building space elevators, we could just cover the uninhabited desert parts of libya and algeria with hundreds of square km of photovoltaics...

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