Dan M wrote: > Maybe in 500 years. If you notice, he snuck in some doozies. > For example, > capturing 1% of the total power hitting the moon is a tremendous amount. > Present systems discuss 11% efficiency with pride. This means that the > panels would have to cover 9% of the moons surface. Further, he talks > about 100,000 square km of receivers on the earth. My guess is that he is > underestimating costs by around a factor of 100. IMHO, he is > doing wishful > thinking engineering at best. I would place the likelihood of this > prediction coming true in this century in the general range of the other > Criswell's predictions coming true.
Sigh... I haven't got back to his report yet, but those sound like pretty good objections. It would take some kind of enormous crisis to get people to invest such a huge amount of money in an unproven technology. But it's something to think about, at least. I'm going to read the rest of it and see how it sounds. Kevin Street
