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The paper presents a comparison of terrestrial large-scale solar power plant solutions with spacebased solutions. The comparison is made in terms of total cost, cost/kWh as well as technology requirements and risk in a timescale reaching from state-of-the-art technology to foreseeable technological advances within approximately 25 years. The application focus of the paper is on the larger continental European situation.
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