[ExI] Asteroidal mining was Nukes was less expensive energy

[Dennis May]

Keith Henson wrote:
  
<What I have done on this topic is just slightly beyond the "back of
<the envelope" stage while matching the scale of the project to the
<demand for Invar for a modest 200 GW per year power sat project.
<Perhaps I am too hard on people to ask that they back up "good ideas"
<with a little physics and chemistry.

My interest has been more along the lines of longer term settlement
and building up industrialization.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ice_Station/message/50
 
You are correct about cooling being a major issue.  I like the idea
of processing on cold ice bodies like Ceres with an Ice Station
in proximity.
 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ice_Station/photos/album/2059047322/pic/1519096589/view?picmode=&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&count=20&dir=asc
 
http://tinyurl.com/44e6tcm
 
 
See the size of cooling required if you're not using an existing ice
body for cooling.

Dennis
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