"A hundred billion dollars? Director, are you joking with me?"
Claire managed to move her phone away in time to dodge the boss's sonic assault, while sighing in resignation.
Her only decent sleep of the week was disrupted by a late-night call to analyze the feasibility of a space-based power station.
John had this wild idea to build a two-hundred-acre (800,000 square meters) solar power station to outdo the competition, and Claire had no choice but to draft calculations while fighting off sleep.
800,000 square meters, even with Spectrolab's (a renowned American solar cell supplier) quote, and after a super hefty discount of $100,000 per square meter, that would still be 80 billion dollars, and launching... let's assume Starship is successful, a hundred billion dollars isn't far off.
That figure was far from John's imagination; he thought it could be done with at most 10, or even just a few billion dollars.
