Re: What's the problem?
Forgive me if I don't consider reddit to be that much more reliable than wikipedia - to be honest it really doesn't matter when or how often it uses 100W, far too much to be permanently on anyway.
But your own source says that Starlink is quite happy to have power cut...
So you turn it off, and It uses no power.... Then you apply power and probably get the ability to transmit data within two minutes?
That's not too arduous for a system which is only ever reporting on emergencies over a wide area (and maybe a daily check-in)
Of course traditional sat technology could do the same job, since I am assuming that latency doesn't really matter, and the bandwidth required isn't likely to be extreme (a few photos of smoke and a direction indicator?)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
