[ExI] Is Mr. Henson somehow involved in this?

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 20:16:17 UTC 2009


On 12/4/09, Henrique Moraes Machado wrote:
> Solar Plant in Space Gets Go-Ahead
> http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/solar-plant-in-space-gets-go-ahead/
>
>

I very much doubt that Keith is involved.
He's a very practical engineer type.

Quote from the article:
Still, Mr. Spirnak, who previously ran space shuttle flights for the
United States Air Force, acknowledged that putting a solar power plant
in space would cost a few billion dollars more than a terrestrial
photovoltaic farm generating the equivalent amount of electricity.
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Terrestrial solar power farms are already running and more are being
built - for a fraction of the cost of this plan.

This is California politics snatching at anything that might help it
meet its renewable energy mandates. It won't cost California anything
if it fails.
It will be the investors that lose their money.

BillK



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