The book was a collection of shortstories. It was "made into a movie". Maybe 5% of stuff from the book made it into the movie. The main character from the movie doesn't even exist in the book.
-Cameron On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Scott Stroz<boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Was that the book where they used solar power to generate microwave > energy that was beamed down to earth and the satellite went off > kilter? I remember reading something like that , but cannot remember > the book title or author. > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Cameron Childress<camer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Robert Munn<cfmuns...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Forget about the entire surface of the planet. Solar can only be really >>> efficiently generated in areas with the best sun exposure. Transmission, >>> then, is the biggest barrier to this sort of scheme as a global solution. >> >> Space has the best exposure. Then we just beam the energy back to >> earth. A combined robot/human team would work rotations manning the >> space station that collects the energy and make sure that they kept >> the beam on target. >> >> That's a plot found in a book my a famous Sci-Fi writer. Anyone recognize >> it? >> >> -Cameron >> >> >> ---line food-- >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:303425 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
