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- From: dpe@inel.gov (Don Palmrose)
- Subject: Re: Energy from space Sustain Future
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.202206.15636@inel.gov>
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- Organization: INEL EG&G Idaho
- References: <1466300153@igc.apc.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 20:22:06 GMT
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- In article <1466300153@igc.apc.org>, adastra@igc.apc.org (Ad Astra Ltd.) writes:
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- > Energy from space Sustainable futures
- > Using energy from space, satellite power systems, transmitted
- > to earth via microwaves offers a sustainable, environmentally
- > benign source of energy
- >
- >
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- Been there, saw that, did that.....
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- Yeah, until you in a plane or some bird happen to fly through the beam.
- Plus what do you do when there is a big rain/snow storm over the ground
- station? This concept has been around for about twenty years and the only
- money spent has shown that to do this is very expensive and not worth the
- time compared to other atlernatives like ground solar stations and even
- wind power stations.
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- Don Palmrose
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