[extropy-chat] Suicide the Green way

[spike]

> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Anders Sandberg
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Suicide the Green way
> 
> 
> spike wrote:
> >  I would be curious to
> > know why low resistance beats lightness -- do the photons charge the
> sail?
> 
> I think it is not necessarily that it always beats lightness, but it
> improves efficiency. A photon hitting a good conductor is reflected, while
> a photon hitting a poor conductor heats it - less energy gets reflected.
> 
> Landis has some calculations on this.
> 
> --
> Anders Sandberg

Thanks Anders, it was actually Robert who asked this, but my answer to him
was pretty similar to yours.

spike