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CX-001 t1_iy0yk1r wrote

Reply to comment by Prowler1000 in News Release: NREL Creates Highest Efficiency 1-Sun Solar Cell - 39.5% efficiency by TimeSpentWasting

> no elbow room in space

The other guy was probably talking about cost per unit of weight.

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a11en t1_iy1kjj8 wrote

Yes, absolutely correct. Both weight and size are considerations for payload.

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Prowler1000 t1_iy0yr48 wrote

Yeah but saying that "there's no elbow room in space" is such a weird way to word it to the point that it becomes misleading. There isn't, as far as I know, a misconception about the amount of room in space but comments like that are how those misconceptions are born.

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