[ExI] fossil fuels and nukes (was: Re: what did we learn?)

[William Flynn Wallace]

Thank you Adrian.  Now does the same logic apply to that gear being in
orbit?  I can see the difficulty of aiming from the Moon.  bill w

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 5:09 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 2:50 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Educate the ignorant here, please?  Isn't it true that the beaming you
>> are talking about can be used as weapons with a little change of direction?
>>
>
> Not so much.  You would need to focus the beam further as well.  Current
> tech can focus well enough for wireless transmission to a relatively large
> antenna on the ground, but for a weapon you would need much tighter focus,
> unless you want to raze cities or similar (for which nuclear weapons work
> better - and the nations which have a realistic shot at developing
> space-based solar power already have nuclear weapons).
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