>>13495555OK, let's do the maths.
With 10,000 satellites in low orbit, each shading 100 sq m, we get a total shade of 1,000,000 sq m or 1 km squared.
This reduces incident power by 1 GW (assuming all are on the sunlit side, in reality it will be less than half, but for the orders of magnitude we neglect this).
Total sunlit area (assuming no atmospheric refraction) is just over 125,000,000 square km. Thus the shading is just peanuts.
So let's up the game (or rather elongate it) and say each satellite shades 1 km squared. With 10,000 satellites we get 10,000 sq km which STILL is insignificant.
