No, but in the Matadora series by Steve Perry, they raided a solar-power-downlink station in the badlands of Australia.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com>wrote: > > 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 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:303427 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
