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From Space, Watts, Bits, and Dreams

Marcelo Rinesi

Marcelo Rinesi

Frontier Economy
July 02, 2009

Space travel is very cheap. There’s no friction in the vacuum of space, so once you get something to move, it just keeps moving without spending any energy. The problem lies in getting things away from the gravity well of a planet.

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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/02 at 10:47 PM

Low Earth Orbit Wireless Power Transmission Satellite

http://nlspropulsion.net/Documents/MPTS_June_2009_No_drawing.pdf

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/07 at 04:42 PM

I have contributed an article arguing in favor of essentially the same proposition:

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3220/

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/07 at 06:31 PM

"It would be hard to exaggerate the shock to Western civilization that was the discovery of the true nature of the planets in the Solar System."

We discovered the true nature of the planets?

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/14 at 10:24 PM

It'll be interesting to see precisely who opposes space-based power generation. I'm betting on the hard-core eco-freaks.

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