Re: Power satellites was and the rest of you

2014-03-05 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 12:04 Tuesday 04-03-14, Keith Henson wrote: [...] Time to displace fossil fuels is a bit over two decades from the start. Will probably take at least that long before second- and third-hand used electric vehicles get cheap enough for those who today cannot afford anything newer than

Power satellites was and the rest of you

2014-03-04 Thread Keith Henson
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Ellen S. zoo...@hotmail.com wrote: snip Solar energy beamed down from outer space? I don't know anything about that. Try http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/09/propulsion-lasers-for-large-scale.html The big objection to solar and other forms of renewable energy is