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Space/Science » in reply to re: Different sorts of scientific debates

Even more numbers.

Interestingly, it takes about 2 million Joules to raise each kg to 200 km altitude.

If you somehow harnessed that entire 127 e17 watts of solar energy, it would still take 1173 years to raise all that mylar into orbit...

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