How Space-Based Solar Power Plants Could Be Built By Robots On the Moon (blastingnews.com)

MarkWhittington writes: The concept of space based solar power has been around for decades. The late Gerard K. O'Neill proposed building them as a way to finance space colonies in the 1970s. Recently Popular Science reported on a modern approach to building space based solar energy stations. Instead of relying on massive, orbiting space colonies filled with construction workers to put the plants together, why not automate the entire process?

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This sounds familiar

[beatle11]

An object in space beaming energy down to a planet. Sounds a lot like a Death Star to me.