[ExI] This power satellite video shown at the ISDC

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:08 AM, J.R. Jones <mrjones2020 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I never understood this whole "What's the cost... It's too expensive"
> routine.
> Isn't the cost of NOT doing it, economic (and likely human) suicide?
>
No, it isn't.  Not if said suicide can be prevented just as well by
cheaper, more immediately available means.

> Renewables, space based or not, must be cheaper. Nevermind health and
> ecological costs.
>
"Space based or not" is the problem.  If the same benefits from using
renewables can be had from ground-based solar far sooner and for far less
money than for space-based solar, then why not claim that benefit sooner
and cheaper?  That's part of the core of the "too expensive" objection.
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