[ExI] List of pitfalls

[Emlyn]

2009/3/26 Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>:
> Figuring it would raise credibility, I have been trying to put
> together a list of technical developments that would wipe out the
> rational for building power satellites.
>
> This is because a lot of people who could be involved in this business
> have the fairly fresh memory of Iridium going bust.  In that case it
> was because much of their market was eaten by cell phones.
>
> To start off, the development and acceptance of very low cost nuclear
> energy would wipe out the market for power sat energy more expensive
> than the nuclear energy.
>
> What other cases can you think of?
>
> Keith

This probably counts as nuclear:

National Ignition Facility
https://lasers.llnl.gov/

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