<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Keith Henson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I simply don't believe you can<br>
launch projectiles with 5 Mt bombs and not get a huge buildup of<br>
radioactives in the atmosphere. Also, I think we need a lot of people<br>
in space to assemble power sats and there is no way people are going<br>
to go into space this way.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Why, theoretical studies seem to suggest rather different scenarios, especially with relatively "clean", especially designed, H bombs, but there is no doubt that some degree of radioactive pollution would be the price to pay for a way much lower price-to-GEO for kg of solar power stuff, in view of supposedly extinction-threatening warming effects of ongoing carbon emissions., which would be even, albeit in fact very marginally. inflated by a large deployment of chemical rockets.<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>