At 12:00 PM 4/10/2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: (Keith wrote) >>So my question to you, is which be an easier project to sell, a >>demonstration project for a small number of billions over 10 or 15 >>years, or a really huge project in the high hundreds of billions to >>massively displace coal and oil with solar energy from space in under >>ten years? > >Or perhaps the real question is which of the following is the case? > >(1) Your figures and their figures disagree that much, in which >case it might be worthwhile to have someone else independently check >both sets of figures (probably a good idea in \\any\\ case), or
We don't disagree on any figures. I would defer to them if we did, they are the experts. >(2) There is more on the agenda than simply finding longer-lasting, >less-polluting sources of energy to replace oil. I am sure of that. The entire community seems to have been beaten down for so long they don't know what direction up is. I really don't think the initiative is going to come from the engineering community any more than it did back before Kennedy decided we would go to the moon. Keith _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
