[ExI] The L5 Society ( was: EP and Peak oil.)

[hkhenson]

At 08:15 PM 4/10/2008, Bryan wrote:
>On Thursday 10 April 2008, hkhenson wrote:
> > You never do.  Using rockets, each launch delivers 200 tons of
> > material.  It takes 50 flights (at ten a day) to build one power sat.
>
>Geeze, if only there was, you know, stuff, that we could, like, use,
>that wasn't, like, on the surface of the planet. ;)

How well do I know this.  30 years ago Eric Drexler and I figure out 
how to use any sort of moon or asteroid rock for heat transfer fluid 
with only a small vibratory ball mill to process it.

We might be able to sell a rocket based power sat project to the 
bankers and bureaucrats, but not space based industry.  Sorry

Keith Henson