[ExI] Unsustainable was Re: Solar power makes UK people poorer

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:54:31PM -0700, Keith Henson wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> 
> snip
> 
> > So I'm thinking the whole hooha doesn't matter. You can't change
> > physical realities by politics fiat. May the better power source win.
> 
> I can make a case for EROEI of better that a hundred to one for power
> sats and an energy payback time of under two months.

That SPS will be extremely big in distinctly less than a century
is obvious enough.

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