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China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than 'all the oil on Earth' (www.livescience.com)
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[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

Orbiting solar power plants definitely seems like a step towards space elevators and related capabilities

elevators are a huge materials science problem for the tether, i'm not sure one space station has much more related to that than another.