[ExI] EP and Peak oil.

[Bryan Bishop]

On Thursday 03 April 2008, Brent Neal wrote:
> On 3 Apr, 2008, at 0:26, John K Clark wrote:
> > The trouble with power satellites is it could take a couple of  
> > trillion dollars just to build a prototype and then you could learn
> > for sure that the idea just isn't going to work
>
> Citations, please? :P

I second this motion. Last month I visited UT Austin, they have a lab 
with kids my age launching rockets and mini satellites on the cehap 
(and they are dead broke); adding in power-sat stuff seems more like a 
matter of knowledge than 'trillions of dollars'.

- Bryan
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