[mplanchard]

The one benefit is being able to be in a synchronous orbit with the sun, so you don’t have to contend with night. However, that’s just another ~doubling of efficiency, which I think still nowhere near makes up for the additional costs.

[DrillShopper]

It also makes the cooling problem more difficult.

[mplanchard]

Yeah, it seems like the cooling is pretty much the number one implausible thing among a raft of implausible things