Re: Space progress report

2012-11-28 Thread Richard Baker
Keith said: Friday I visited Reaction Engines. Delightful experience meeting Alan Bond and Richard Varvill, the key technical guys. They have (and I saw) the precooler for the SABRE engines working. They extract a GW of heat from entering ram air and drop the temperature to -150 deg,

Re: Greens add to Greenhouse gasses

2012-11-28 Thread Kevin O'Brien
On 11/27/2012 5:18 PM, Dan Minette wrote: Really cheap power if we bootstrap by building one power satellite and use it for propulsion lasers to bring up parts for thousands. With all due respect, Keith, I've been hearing arguments like this for 50 years. One thing would help you establish

Re: Greens add to Greenhouse gasses (Keith Henson)

2012-11-28 Thread Keith Henson
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Klaus Stock k...@stock-consulting.com wrote: snip Our political leaders don't need solutions, they need fear. Once you control voters by fear, you can do literally everything. snip However, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, has studied physics. I'm