With starship costs possibly being ~ $20/kg, some quick math says you could pull existing solar panels up from earth at ~ $100/kilowatt [1]. For comparison, it looks like installation on a house costs about $2500/kw [3].

It's no short-term thing, but it's the kind of thing that I might get to see in my lifetime. And it's certainly something that should get engineers excited, even if it's just considering what's theoretically possible.

Also, as the 2nd video notes, though it does send more heat through to earth, it's trivial in comparison to greenhouse effects, which are the kind of things this could mitigate, not just by cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions, but by providing enough cheap energy to make carbon capture feasible.

[1] https://www.inverse.com/article/60712-spacex-starship-elon-m... [2] https://www.spectrolab.com/DataSheets/Panel/panels.pdf [3] https://modernize.com/solar/panel-cost-calculator#:~:text=So....

"Significantly" is a pretty bold claim. Earth gets insane amounts of solar power, a few hundred extra square kilometers of panels in space won't make much of a difference.