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Read of the Day: The Climate Killers

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Achilles Tang1/15/2010 4:48:35 pm PST

re: #166 abolitionist

1) too much
2) too much
3) too much
4) has potential
5) For one thing, when there is 18000+ miles between microwave transmitter and receiver (for energy transfer, not communications), the size(s) of those structures required are pretty big.

Where is your ambition? Actually, I think it is about 22,000 miles, but the size of the structures on the ground are quite manageable. The problem is in the present state of launch cost per kilo.