<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:22 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;">
Space based solar provisionally looks like the best idea. Going to<br>
much higher exhaust velocity than you can get with chemical fuels for<br>
the second stage seems to be one way to get the cost to GEO below<br>
$100/kg. That's low enough for penny a kWh electricity and synthetic<br>
liquid fuels for a dollar a gallon, but it only works for a million<br>
tonne per year traffic model.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>What about a Project Orion vehicle?<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>