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It's just such a miniscule amount of power.

Do you want to know why you don't see power dams below a certain size and height? Because gravitational potential energy is not very much. And I say this as someone who gets more excited by the Niagara falls power station than by the actual waterfall.

I also question their math claiming 200w per sq meter.

https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-power-can-we-get...

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I tracked it down in another comment, the 200 w/m^2 is the maximum output of the harvester, e.g. if you started spraying the panel with a firehose.

In this case, the input energy available is ~4 orders of magnitude lower than that.

Seems misleading to even mention 200W in any capacity at all.

The may be other planets where the economics work out better.

Probably wouldn't want to live there. Replicants would be able to run their fridges, though.

200W PMPO !!

(in reference to the ridiculous advertising tactics of cheap audio/computer speaker systems in the 1990s)

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