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The company aims to have a scaled-up version of the system in space by 2036, which would supply gigawatts of electricity.

by 2036? We are all dead by then…

Uhm no. While you are in orbit you simply revolve around a parent object (a planet for example) but you still are subjected to its (and by proxy it to yours) gravitational pull. Eventually something that came lose will deorbit.

drag in orbit? 0, microgravity that pulls on everything even in high orbit? yes.

Really depends on how low you are.