On Feb 25, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:07:31
-0500:
Hi,
[snip]
See Tom Valone's latest newsletter:
http://users.erols.com/iri/EnewsFeb25,2008.htm
Headlines:
1) Pentagon Space-Based Solar Power - Leading future energy solution
for only $10 billion
Quote:
"Space-based solar power may become an important energy source as
fossil-fuel
supplies dwindle in midcentury: A single 1-kilometer-wide solar
array could
collect enough power in a year to rival the entire world’s oil
reserves."
This is wrong. It would in fact only produce enough to cover the
oil usage of
the US alone for about a day.
It may be the author confused the space based solar collectors with
the terrestrially based microwave receiver grids.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
