People will pirate when it's overpriced. When it's right-priced, most people will gladly pay for it.

Uh... you didn't actually read the article, did you?

1) Benefits - how much energy can an orbital solar array produce, relative to the same size solar array on Earth? About twice as much - it's lit for 24 instead of 12 hours. (plus benefit of always-perpendicular incident radiation, but minus losses in conversion & transmission.) Ultimately, ~2x power from the same array.

You forgot to take into account cloud albedo, smog, and other types of atmospheric attenuation of the sunlight, all of which substantially reduce the amount of energy collected by terrestrial-based panels.